Three weeks into command of the Army of Northern Virginia, General Robert E. Lee embarked on a daring, do-or-die assault on the Army of the Potomac. Though not without failure and mistakes, he successfully drove his foe away from the very gates of Richmond in a brutal seven-day struggle of nearly-constant battle. By the end, he proved he might very well be the champion the Confederacy sorely needed - and McClellan was not the man the Union required.

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