13 Facts About Peninsula Campaign

Peninsula Campaign created defenses for Washington that were almost impregnable, consisting of 48 forts and strong points, with 480 guns manned by 7,200 artillerists.

Peninsula Campaign had planned to have 30,000 under McDowell to join him.

Peninsula Campaign spread his artillery very far apart and had it fire sporadically at the Union lines.

Peninsula Campaign was convinced that an army whose strength he estimated as high as 120,000 would stay and fight.

Peninsula Campaign had been concerned that the Confederates would leave their fortifications and attack him on the Yorktown Road.

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Peninsula Campaign personally led the 24th Virginia Infantry on a futile assault and was wounded by a bullet through the shoulder.

Peninsula Campaign called off the assault after it had begun, but Hancock ordered a counterattack.

Peninsula Campaign's crew reported casualties of 14 dead or mortally wounded and 10 injured.

Peninsula Campaign moved slowly and deliberately, reacting to faulty intelligence that led him to believe the Confederates outnumbered him significantly.

Peninsula Campaign was confined to bed, ill with a flare-up of his chronic malaria.

Peninsula Campaign decided against attacking across his own natural defense line, the Chickahominy, and planned to capitalize on the Union army's straddle of the river by attacking the two corps south of the river, leaving them isolated from the other three corps north of the river.

Peninsula Campaign redeployed all of his army except for the V Corps south of the river, and although he continued to plan for a siege and the capture of Richmond, he lost the strategic initiative and never regained it.

Second phase of the Peninsula campaign took a negative turn for the Union when Lee launched fierce counterattacks just east of Richmond in the Seven Days Battles.