Peninsula Campaign Driving Tour Part 2 | Live and Let Hike
Civil War Series The 1862 Peninsula Campaign, intended by the Union to put a decisive end to the Civil War by capturing the Confederate capital of Richmond, began with a slow start. Gen. George McClellan, despite setting out in March 1862 with the largest army the continent had ever seen, inched up the ia Peninsula from Hampton at what seemed like a snail's pace.