Retreat from Victory: The Battle of Malvern Hill and the End of the Seven Days, July 1, 1862 (O'Reilly CH) pets one part garden journey

one part garden journey

relied on sarcasm

an English doughboy in the trenches

the book includes a substantial section of endnotes

but it was the caning that made conflict and disunion unavoidable five years later

Retreat from Victory: The Battle of Malvern Hill and the End of the Seven Days, July 1, 1862 (O'Reilly CH) pets one part garden journeyby Francis Augustin OReilly The Battle of Malvern Hill on July 1, 1862, marked the climax of the Seven Days Battles around Richmond, Virginia. For the first time since the Civil War began, the full might of Maj. Gen. George B. McClellans Union Army of the Potomac and Gen. Robert E. Lees Confederate Army of Northern Virginia met. The world watched and wondered as this high stakes combat played out on the doorstep of the Confederate capital. McClellans