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URL:https://harrisburgcwrt.org/events/november-engagement-george-b-mcclell
 an-and-the-seven-days-campaign-virtual-engagement-via-zoom/
SUMMARY:November Virtual Engagement - George B. McClellan and the Seven Day
 s Campaign - Virtual Engagement via Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Ethan S. Rafuse is a professor of military history at the U
 .S. Army Command General Staff College.&nbsp\; He earned his BA and MA deg
 rees in history at George Mason University\, and completed his doctoral wo
 rk at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.\nIn 2018-2019\, Dr. Rafuse w
 as the Charles Boal Ewing Distinguished Professor of History at the U.S. M
 ilitary Academy at West Point.\nThe Seven Days Battles were a critical tur
 ning point in the Union war effort.&nbsp\; The failure to capture Richmond
  shattered Northern faith in Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's vision that a
  combination of a lenient policy toward Southern property and a single\, d
 ecisive campaign against the Confederate capital from the Peninsula would 
 bring a quick end to the Civil War.&nbsp\; In the weeks following the Seve
 n Days Battles\, Washington decisively eschewed both elements of McClellan
 's strategic vision.&nbsp\; The U.S. Congress passed a sweeping Confiscati
 on Act\, Abraham Lincoln drafted the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
 \, heralding an end to a policy of conciliation toward the rebels\, and Li
 ncoln saw in the course and outcome of the Peninsula Campaign compelling e
 vidence that he had been wrong to defer to McClellan's operational vision\
 , which would lead him to terminate operations on the Peninsula.&nbsp\; Th
 is presentation will look at the Union high command during the Peninsula C
 ampaign and Seven Days Battles and the broader contexts that shaped its pe
 rformance\, with particular focus on the strategic and operational vision 
 that guided McClellan's conduct of operations and how the course and outco
 me of events east of Richmond affected the Union war effort in 1862 and be
 yond.&nbsp\;\nDr. Rafuse is the author\, editor\, or co-editor of numerous
  books and monographs on Civil War and military history\, including McClel
 lan’s War:&nbsp\; The Failure of Moderation in the War for the Union\;&n
 bsp\;Manassas: A Battlefield Guide\;&nbsp\;Stonewall Jackson: A Biography\
 ;&nbsp\;Antietam\, South Mountain and Harpers Ferry:&nbsp\; A Battlefield 
 Guide\;&nbsp\;Robert E. Lee and the Fall of the Confederacy\;&nbsp\;Guide 
 to the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign&nbsp\;(U.S. Army War College Guides to
  Civil War Battles)\; The Ongoing Civil War: New Versions and Old Stories&
 nbsp\;(with Herman Hattaway)\, and&nbsp\;A Single Grand Victory: The First
  Campaign and Battle of Manassas\, as well as over 350 articles\, essays\,
  and reviews in various academic and popular history publications.\nHe tau
 ght Civil War and military history at the U.S. Military Academy in 2001-20
 03. He lives with his wife and daughter in Platte City\, Missouri.\n&nbsp\
 ;\nTopic: Harrisburg CWRT November 2020 Engagement\nTime: Friday\, Novembe
 r 20\, 2020 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)\nLocation:&nbsp\; Zoom M
 eeting Room\nZoom Meeting ID:&nbsp\; 836 1361 7449\nPass Code:&nbsp\; 4078
 53\nOr dial in by phone:&nbsp\; +1-301-715-8592
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