. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers, based upon "The Century war series." . was to attend to the Federal right flank, and take posi-tion on the Charles City road west of the cross-roads. Thus we were toenvelop the Federal rear and make the destruction of that part of McClellansarmy sure. To reach my position south of the cross-roads, I had about six-teen miles to march. I marched 14 miles on the 29th, crossing over into theDarbytown road and moving down to its intersection, with the New Marketroad, where I camped for
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers, based upon "The Century war series." . was to attend to the Federal right flank, and take posi-tion on the Charles City road west of the cross-roads. Thus we were toenvelop the Federal rear and make the destruction of that part of McClellansarmy sure. To reach my position south of the cross-roads, I had about six-teen miles to march. I marched 14 miles on the 29th, crossing over into theDarbytown road and moving down to its intersection, with the New Marketroad, where I camped for the night, about 3 miles south-west of Fraysersfarm. On the morning of the 30th I moved two miles nearer up and madepreparation to intercept the Federals as they retreated toward James McCall, with a division of ten thousand Federals, was at the cross-roads and about Fraysers farm. My division, being in advance, wasdeployed in front of the enemy. I placed such of my batteries as I could findposition for, and kept Hills troops in my rear. As I had twice as far tomarch as the other commanders, I considered it certain that Jackson and. THE SE1/EN DAYS, INCLUDING FRAYSERS FARM. v !&y&&
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