Featured battle : Gaines Mill

Part of American Civil War

Date : 27 June 1862

Lee, having concentrated his forces, and despite Jackson arriving late, attacked the Union position on Turkey Hill, overlooking Gaines Mill. John Bell Hood's Texans managed to create a breach in Union lines at the point of bayonet and Longstreet and Jackson helped widen it, but Fitz-John Porter's bluecoats held their own and following reinforcement from McClellan were able to withdraw in good order.

Waterloo Archive Volume V: British Sources

Gareth Glover [Ed]
Another superb book in this series. This one has tapped a very rich seam of material hitherto inaccessible to anyone unable to read German. Though the whole book is most interesting Appendix 2 in particular appealed to me. It records some of the 'Glorious Feats' performed by men of the KGL and Hanoverian Army. There are also some excellent reproductions of original illustrations of uniforms and 'battle' scenes. See review of Volume VI for comment on the whole series.
Frontline Books, Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 2013