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It had been the largest plan ever attempted in the Civil War: the Peninsula plan of 1862. General George McClellan prepared to enhance from Yorktown in the Virginia Peninsula and ruin the Rebel army in its own capital. But with Robert E. Lee delivering blows to the Union army, McClellan's plan fell through at the gates of Richmond. Now, in a report of the great Civil War proposal that weaves collectively narrative, military examination, and eyewitness accounts drawn from the diaries and characters of troops, historian Stephen W. Sears showcases all why Ken Burns, the producer of the PBS series The Civil War, calling Sears "one of your best Civil War historians."
