Excerpt from The Peninsula: McClellan's Campaign of 1862

So much has been written on this subject that it would not at first appear to be a difficult matter to condense the various accounts, but to the writer's task has been added the special work required in comparing and collating for careful investigation the new material gathered by the War Department, and now for the first time made the basis of a history of that period. The results of that labor he presents in these pages.

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