Download or read book To the Gates of Richmond written by Stephen W. Sears and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length account ever written of the Peninsula Campaign of 1862--the largest military offensive of the Civil War. The campaign was Union General George McClellan's grand scheme to advance up the Virginia Peninsula and destroy the Rebel army in its own capital. But his plans fell apart at the gates of Richmond.