History of the United States I / Unit 15 USH1 2124 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Seven Days
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The idea
McClellan moved one hundred thousand soldiers toward Richmond and stopped miles short, while Stonewall Jackson moved north toward Washington to draw men away.
In practice
A quarter to a third of his force sent back under Irvin McDowell, as Jackson intended.
Where people slip
The Seven Days Battles of late June eighteen sixty-two killed or wounded almost twenty thousand Confederates and ten thousand Union men.
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