The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Seven Days Battles (from June 25 to July 1, 1862) of the American Civil War. Order of battle compiled from the army organization-return of casualties during the battle and the reports. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately.
Famous quotes containing the words days, union, order and/or battle:
“My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away, they see no good. They go by like skiffs of reed, like an eagle swooping on the prey.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Job 9:25-26.
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—Bernard Devoto (1897–1955)
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—E.T.A.W. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Wilhelm)
“The Battle of Waterloo is a work of art with tension and drama with its unceasing change from hope to fear and back again, change which suddenly dissolves into a moment of extreme catastrophe, a model tragedy because the fate of Europe was determined within this individual fate.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)