To the Gates of Richmond

This account of McClellan’s 1862 campaign is “a wonderful book” (Ken Burns) and “military history at its best” ( The New York Times Book Review ). From “the finest and most provocative Civil War historian writing today,” To the Gates of Richmond is the story of the one of the conflict’s bloodiest campaigns ( Chicago Tribune ). Of the 250,000 men who fought in it, only a fraction had ever been in battle before—and one in four was killed, wounded, or missing in action by the time the fighting ende