. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers, based upon "The Century war series." . lan approached with his armyof 100,000 men and opened his cannons upon us, I hadbut 2500 iu garrison, and our whole Army of the Penin-sula, under Major-General Magi-uder, amounted to but9300 elTective men; then at a salient angle, an accessiblepoint of our works, as part of the defenses thereof, I hadthe land mined with the weapons alluded to, to destroyassailants and prevent escalade. Subsequently, with asimilarview, they were placed at spots
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers, based upon "The Century war series." . lan approached with his armyof 100,000 men and opened his cannons upon us, I hadbut 2500 iu garrison, and our whole Army of the Penin-sula, under Major-General Magi-uder, amounted to but9300 elTective men; then at a salient angle, an accessiblepoint of our works, as part of the defenses thereof, I hadthe land mined with the weapons alluded to, to destroyassailants and prevent escalade. Subsequently, with asimilarview, they were placed at spots I never saw. . .And again when, at Williamsburg, we were ordered toturn upon our assailants and combat them, . . some6 or 7 miles this side of Williamsburg, my commandforming the rear-guard of the army, . . some 4 smallshells, found abandoned by our artillery, were hastilyprepared by my efforts, and put in the road near a treefelled across, mainly to have a moral effect in checkingthe advance of the enemy (for they were too small to domore). . [Compare p. 205.] EDITORS. MANASSAS TO SEVEN PINES. BY JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON, GENERAI., C. 8. A LEEADY in this work [Vol. I., p. 240] I-^-*- have discussed Mr. Daviss statementsin his Else and Fall of the ConfederateGovernment, so far as they bore npon theresponsibilities of the First Bull Enn. Iwill now consider his remarks npon theoperations following the withdrawal fromManassas and including the battle of SevenPines. As to the question of the forces on thePeninsula Mr. Davis says : Early in AprilGeneral McClellan had landed about 100,000men at or near Fortress Monroe [Eiseand Fall, II., 84]. According to JohnTucker, Assistant Secretary of War, 121,000Federal troops landed before the 5th ofApril. Mr. Davis fmther says: At thistime General Magruder occupied the lowerPeninsula with his force of seven or eightthousand men [II., 84]. General Ma-gruder reported that he had eleven thousand men. Mi*. Davis also says: * After the first advanc
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