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Union
Casualties: 15,849
Confederate Casualties:
20,135
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Statistical Source: B&I
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The Seven Days: The bloody sequence of battles around
Richmond began on June 26, 1862, and lasted for a week.
Determined to hurl McClellan
back from the Confederate capital, Lee
attacked him again and again - at Mechanicsville, Gaines'
Mill, Savage's Station, Frayser's Farm, and Malvern Hill.
McClellan won four out of the five battles, but proved
as fearful in victory as he was in defeat, backing steadily
away until he reached Harrison's Landing on the James.
The Peninsula Campaign, begun with such bright hope, had
ended in defeat.
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