A Civil War watershed: the 1862 Richmond Campaign in perspective / Gary W. Gallagher. -- The seven days of George Brinton McClellan / John T. Hubbell. -- I only wait for the River: McClellan and his engineers on the Chickahominy / William F. Miller. -- Sleepless in the saddle: Stonewall Jackson in the seven days / Robert K. Krick. -- The great paragon of virtue and sobriety: John Bankhead Magruder and the seven days / Peter S. Carmichael. -- A feeling of restless anxiety: loyalty and race in the Peninsula Campaign and beyond / James Marten. -- The seven days and the radical persuasion: convincing moderates in the North of the need for a hard war / William A. Blair. -- The men who carried this position were soldiers indeed: the decisive charge of Whiting's Division at Gaines's Mill / R.E.L. Krick. -- One solid unbroken roar of thunder: Union and Confederate artillery at the Battle of Malvern Hill / Keith S. Bohannon.