America's Civil War
History 393
Study Questions
Professor John C. Willis
 
 
Lee's Second Chance

 

1.  How would you characterize Robert E. Lee's debut in command of the Army of Northern Virginia in the Seven Days' Campaign? 

2.  Why did Richmond elude McClellan's grasp in the summer of 1862? 

3.  If Richmond had fallen to McClellan in the Peninsular Campaign, and the war had ended soon after, what would have been slavery's fate?


Peruse these photographs of the Peninsular Campaign at the Library of Congress site.