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On June 26, 1862, with Federal troops so near Richmond that they could set their watches by the city’s church bells, a young officer in the 7th Maine wrote, “We expect to be in Richmond in a fortnight,” while General Robert E. Lee ordered his men to strengthen the city’s defensive earthworks. Lee was gambling: while a small force held these entrenchments, he intended to use most of his army to launch a counterattack. Across the Chickahominy River near Mechanicsville, the second in the series of battles known as the Seven Days began.
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