McClellan abandons the White House Landing supply base
June 1862, White House, Virginia.
- Date
- June 1862
- Where
- White House, Virginia
- What happened
- Burned
- Event
- 38 of 174
McClellan's base on the Pamunkey fed his army by the Richmond and York River Railroad and brought his siege guns toward Richmond. During the Seven Days Battles he abandoned it and shifted his base to Harrison's Landing on the James River. Retreating Union troops burned the White House plantation house.
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