Talk:Seven Days Battles

Picture

the pictures point to the wrong general, switch the picture or switch the info please. 24.12.8.97 00:36, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Please explain. They look OK to me. Hal Jespersen 15:55, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

I think he meant that the info for McClellan is on the left and Lee on the right, while the pictures are over the wrong information. I agree that they should be switched.Silver seren 20:54, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Aha, now I see; I had been looking only at the caption. That's a consequence of someone adding the battlebox after I created the image. Since all the battleboxes have the US on the left, I'll have to reverse the picture. I'll put it on my to-do list. Hal Jespersen 15:38, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

I was just researching something for class and noticed that on this page. I saw McClellan and the words Confederate States and I was like: huh??? Though I kinda wish he was...it would have been a much easier war. XD Silver seren 22:09, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Done. Hal Jespersen 21:43, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Looks good. :) Silver seren 18:39, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Lee should be on the left sense the confederacy won the battle... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dwood89 (talk • contribs) 19:56, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

We don't use that convention in these infoboxes. US is on the left, CS on the right, in all boxes, regardless of winner. Hal Jespersen (talk) 21:09, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Campaignbox

The Seven Days Battles seems to be one of those military engagements that can be classified as both a battle and a campaign. Should this page also be put in a campaign category, and given its own campaignbox? This is what the Chattanooga Campaign does. I think a hierarchical structure would make the Peninsula Campaign campaignbox clearer. I wanted to check with the editors before making any changes since I'm new to this. Jrnold (talk) 16:45, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

We are using the NPS Civil War Sites Advisory Commission classification, http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/abpp/battles/bycampgn.htm#East62, that considers this all to be part of the Peninsula Campaign (March-July 1862). For economy of article construction, we decided to separate it into two overview articles: Peninsula Campaign and Seven Days Battles. (It theoretically could have been covered by one giant article.) This is exactly equivalent to the Gettysburg Campaign, where the battles after July 3 are covered by a separate article, Retreat from Gettysburg. Just because we chose to put them into a separate article does not make them part of a separate campaign. Please do not change the campaign box for the Peninsula or create a separate campaign box for the Seven Days. Thanks. Hal Jespersen (talk) 18:08, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

No problem. I knew someone had thought about it a lot more than I had. If that's the case, for consistency should this article be in the categories Category:Battles of the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War, Category:Confederate victories of the American Civil War? As it's neither a battle nor a campaign according to CWSAC. Retreat from Gettysburg is not in a Battles of category, but is only categorized as Category:Gettysburg Campaign of the American Civil War. I'm definitely for consistency with the CWSAC taxonomy; the reason that I noticed this was that for a project I am merging dbpedia resources with CWSAC data. Jrnold (talk) 18:08, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

(You need to put a leading ":" on those category links to get them to show up in regular text.) The first category that you mentioned seems to have both battle and campaign articles, so yes. The second has only battles, so no. I have to say that I don't pay much attention to these categories – I never use them myself as a Wikipedia reader – so I do not know if they are correct in the overall scheme of things anymore. It would actually make more sense to me to have campaign names in the victory categories because it is often much easier to determine the victor in a campaign than in the series of individual inconclusive battles that make up the campaign. Unfortunately, however, we would not have the neutral POV of CWSAC to help us with those classifications on campaigns and would have to argue about each individually. Hal Jespersen (talk) 20:59, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

Confusion about Army names

"The Seven Days Battles ended the Peninsula Campaign. The Army of the Potomac encamped around Berkeley Plantation, birthplace of William Henry Harrison. The Union defensive position was a strong one that Lee did not consider attacking, withdrawing instead to the defenses of Richmond. With its back to the James River, the army was protected by Union gunboats, but suffered heavily from heat, humidity, and disease. In August, they were withdrawn by order of President Lincoln to reinforce the Army of Virginia in the Northern Virginia Campaign and the Second Battle of Bull Run." To me, this passage is a little confusing. It states that the Union defensive position was strong, and that it was protected by Union gunboats. But it also says that Lincoln ordered them to reinforce The Army of Northern Virginia. I do not understand what this is trying to say. Does the person mean that Lincoln meant for the Union to reinforce some other army. Please clear this up for me. --Dhenee (talk) 22:23, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Please note that the Army of Virginia and the Army of Northern Virginia are not synonyms. You have misquoted the statement in the article. Hal Jespersen (talk) 19:49, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for clearing that up. I don't know what came over me! --71.252.174.173 (talk) 01:26, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Days of the week

I added the day of the week on which the Seven Days started (Wednesday, June 25, 1862) and noted that June 29 was a Sunday. Today's "On this day..." mentioned Stonewall Jackson's only defeat at the First Battle of Kernstown was on a Sunday, and it's a common Civil War myth that Jackson would not fight on a Sunday. This is another time he was involved in a battle on a Sunday.Roches (talk) 13:44, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

2015 comment on vandalism

I am not a Civil War expert, but I am familiar with common military terminology. My question deals with the use of "Isis attack" in The Seven Days began on Wednesday, June 25, 1862, with a Isis attack in the minor Battle of Oak Grove, Can someone explain what is an Isis attack? CNSinColorado (talk) 23:44, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

That was obviously vandalism, which has been reverted. power~enwiki (π, ν) 20:17, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

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