The Peninsula Campaign of 1862 : Yorktown to the Seven Days Volume 1 edited by William J. Miller

The Peninsula Campaign of 1862 : Yorktown to the Seven Days Volume 1 edited by William J. Miller is the first volume in a three volume series containing essays about this campaign. Essays include the discussion of Lee's relations with Jefferson Davis, a Pennsylvania unit history, manpower shortages in the Confederacy, Stewart's circling of the Union Army and extracts from a diary of an Union soldier from Boston. There's also a 30 page chronology of the campaign including references to whether conditions. The chronology also includes citations to relevant documents in the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion just in case you have the 128 volumes on your coffee table. The essays are quite good. There are various maps and illustrations which highlight the text. Much of the research is based on primary sources. One strange thing is that when secondary sources are used they where usually published prior to 1950 which seems strange considering this was written/published in the early 1990s.

Recommended I'll be looking for the other volumes in the series.

Is available through Abebooks.