The Seven Days Campaign and Friction: Lee and Clausewitz Discuss Success and Failure on the Chickahominy
Abstract
Transcript from "This Week With David Brinkley" dated July 3, 1862. David Brinkley: Good morning. This morning, in the aftermath of an extremely bloody and long fought battle around Richmond we have as our guests one of the foremost theorists of war in the post-Napoleonic age, Prussian General Carl von Clausewitz and the commander of the recently renamed Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, General Robert E. Lee. General Lee, while this seven days of fighting now seems to be waning and the South has scored a strategic victory there were several tactical defeats along the way at a tremendous price to your forces. Please give our viewers some background on the events leading up to this campaign and an overview of the campaign itself. General Lee: Well David, it's no secret that the war has produced mixed results for the Confederacy. While we enjoyed enormous initial success at Manassas and have a population imbued with the rightness of our cause, we have suffered setbacks in the Western theater at Forts Henry and Donelson and particularly at Shiloh. Additionally, the Union's efforts at a Naval Blockade are starting to have some effect, although that is open to debate. Recently, one of our greatest generals, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, has performed extremely well in the Shenandoah Valley and has rejuvenated Confederate spirits.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1997
- Accession Number
- ADA442312
Entities
People
- Michael T. Fuqua
Organizations
- National War College