history,es in appalachian state university professor jud browning teaches a class on the 1862 civil war peninsula campaign and seven days battles. he reviews union general george mcclellan's failed attempt to take the confederate capital in richmond, virginia and examines how terrain, disease, and nutrition impacted both sides. this class is about an hour and 15 minutes. professor browning: today we'll pick up where we left off last time in the western theatre. so the last battle we covered was? [inaudible] professor browning: the last

. >> on lectures in history, appalachian state university professor jud browning teaches a class on the 1862 civil war peninsula campaign and seven days battles. he reviews union general george mcclellan's failed attempt to take the confederate capital in richmond, virginia and examines how terrain, disease, and nutrition impacted both sides. this class is about an hour and 15 minutes. professor browning: today we'll pick up where we left off last time in the western theatre. so the last battle we covered was? [inaudible] professor browning: the last battle was shiloh, april 6 and 7, 1862. we talked about how grant thought the war was going to be over, one more battle and this thing will end and then after

history,es in appalachian state university professor jud browning teaches a class on the 1862 civil war peninsula campaign and seven days battles. he reviews union general george mcclellan's failed attempt to take the confederate capital in richmond, virginia and examines how terrain, disease, and nutrition impacted both sides. this class is about an hour and 15 minutes. professor browning: today we'll pick up where we left off last time in the western theatre. so the last battle we covered was? [inaudible] professor browning: the last battle was shiloh, april 6 and 7, 1862. we talked about how grant thought the war was going to be over, one more battle and this thing will end and then after shiloh grant learns the war is going to last a lot longer and nothing short of absolute conquest of the south will end it. today we'll talk about a campaign going on at the exact same moment over in the eastern theatre or virginia in this case. we will talk about the peninsula and the seven days campaign today. it starts in late march, early april, 1862 and is going to go until july of 1862. and it