Seven Days Battles

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Seven Days' Battles (1862) Engagement of the American Civil War that ended the Peninsular Campaign. In the final, ferocious battle at Malvern Hill, near Richmond, Virginia, the Union forces of General George McClellan won a tactical victory. Subsequently, however, McClellan, having suffered heavy casualties, withdrew, leaving the field to the Confederates under Robert E. Lee.