Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Chickahominy River” in chapter 3 of Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative:
...that the position astraddle both rivers at the junction of the James and Appomattox was the key to Richmond.
For it would force Lee to hold an exterior line of such enormous length — from the Chickahominy River to the south of Petersburg, nearly 30 miles — that it could not be long maintained.
As McClellan selected the York River line before the James River was opened (by the loss of Norfolk and o...
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