The Peninsula Campaign and the Necessity of Emancipation

Arthur Thurner tells of the enormous struggle of the diverse immigrants who built and sustained energetic towns and communities, creating a lively civilization

When the author was offered a cabin on the Gouldsboro Peninsula in Maine, she took it sight unseen and fell in love with what she found there. Anecdotes, person

Recounts General McClellan's attempt to capture Richmond by advancing up the Virginia peninsula from Yorktown, and how the campaign failed when Confederate forc