American Civil War Game Club (ACWGC)

... Campaign Peninsula is not called "Campaign The Seven Days"? Because that's what it is. It doesn't cover the advance up the Peninsula. Now I can quite understand that it would be difficult to make a competetive scenario say out of Yorktown--as has rightly been pointed out, nobody but McClellan would have hesitated to attack Magruder. It's more that I think the game is a bit misnamed?

Gen. Walter, USA
AoS / War College

Well, I guess because there is the Seven pine battle included in the game + the 7 days battle it seems appropriate for me to have that name...
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<b>BG David Guégan</b>, Brittany Volunteers,
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That's true.

Gen. Walter, USA
AoS / War College

Doesn't history know this time frame by the Peninsula Campaign? So giving it a new one would be like renaming the Battle of Gettysburg to 3 Days on a Hill. [:D]

MajGen Al 'Ambushed' Amos
3rd "Amos' Ambushers" Bde, Cavalry Division, XX Corps, AoC
The Union Forever! Huzzah!

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Al Amos</i>
<br />Doesn't history know this time frame by the Peninsula Campaign?
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To the contrary, save for Seven Pines (as has rightly been pointed out), history knows it as the "Seven Days". The "Peninsula Campaign" is usually the name given to everything that happened from Little Mac's landing on the Peninsula in the spring, through the advance on Richmond, the Seven Days, and finally the retreat from the Peninsula in late summer.

Gen. Walter, USA
AoS / War College

Well there you have it, a mis-nomer. Welcome to Greenland.

MajGen Al 'Ambushed' Amos
3rd "Amos' Ambushers" Bde, Cavalry Division, XX Corps, AoC
The Union Forever! Huzzah!

Yeah, but the Seven Pines battle isn't the Seven Pines battle. It's the battle of Fair Oaks.[:D]

Major General Don Golen
Army of the Potomac, USA!

Of course it is. But the games have a tendency to be designed by Reb sympathizers. Or they wouldn't have named "BG Shiloh" what should properly be "BG Pittsburg Landing" and filed the Battle of Stones River under the unspeakable name of "Murfreesboro". Well, at least they gave us Bull Run and Antietam under their proper names. [;)]

Gen. Walter, USA
AoS / War College

Come on, the reason is it abbreviates much nicer as in: CC, CO, CF, CG and then CP.[:D] And, is much shorter than a more descriptive name like "How That Idiot McCellan Managed to Win Almost Every Battle But Lost the Campaign" which would be HTIMMWAEBBLC.[xx(]

BG. Kennon Whitehead
Chatham Grays
III Corps, AoM (CSA)

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by KWhitehead</i>
<br />And, is much shorter than a more descriptive name like "How That Idiot McCellan Managed to Win Almost Every Battle But Lost the Campaign" which would be HTIMMWAEBBLC.[xx(]
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LOL! [:0][B)]

LGen. Hamilton
II Corps
ANV, CSA

HEY! Let me at least lose a few battles before you start in on me!!!


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<br />And, is much shorter than a more descriptive name like "How That Idiot McCellan Managed to Win Almost Every Battle But Lost the Campaign" which would be HTIMMWAEBBLC.[xx(]
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LOL! [:0][B)]

LGen. Hamilton
II Corps
ANV, CSA
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Brig. General Gary McClellan
1st Division, XXIII Corps
AoO,USA