The world: historical and actual . ner ren-dered sub-stantiallythesame serviceat the battleof SavageStation. Thethird daythe battleof FraziersFarm servedthe samenegative pur-pose, and during that night the army of the Potomac wasre-united for the first time since the Chickahom-iuy flowed between it. And now came the climaxof the campaign—the battle of Malvern Hill,July 1. That conflict raged until nine oclockin the evening, when the Confederates aban-doned the idea of capturing the Federals. McClel-lan fell back upon the James, Lee to the entrench-ments at Richmond, both sides beaten, with los
The world: historical and actual . ner ren-dered sub-stantiallythesame serviceat the battleof SavageStation. Thethird daythe battleof FraziersFarm servedthe samenegative pur-pose, and during that night the army of the Potomac wasre-united for the first time since the Chickahom-iuy flowed between it. And now came the climaxof the campaign—the battle of Malvern Hill,July 1. That conflict raged until nine oclockin the evening, when the Confederates aban-doned the idea of capturing the Federals. McClel-lan fell back upon the James, Lee to the entrench-ments at Richmond, both sides beaten, with losseson either side variously estimated at from 15,000 to25,000. The loss by sickness during the heated termwas terrible. Of the splendid army of 160,000which had entered the Peninsula only a small pro-portion could be mustered as present and fit forservice. The public sentiment at the North wasso strongly against General McClellan that he wasrelieved, practically, and General Pope called from TnF 5C t. THE PERIOD OF CONFLICT. 537. F1TZ JOHN POUTER the West to take his place. The army of the Poto-mac was re-organized late in July, and early inAugust Pope assumed the aggressive. On toRichmond was once more the cry. The battle of CedarMountainwasfought Au-gust 9, inwhich Jack-son punishedBanks unmer-cifully. Leenow preparedto attemptto capturePopes wholearmy, andthe latter tookalarm. Theswollen condition of the Rappahannock baffledboth retreat and attack. Pope was gradually forcedback toward Washington. The second battle ofBull Run, or Manassas, was fought August 30. Atone time it looked as ifthe Federals were aboutto win the day, but FitzJohn Porter failing toco-operate with themain army, the day waslost and Pope obligedto fall back upon Cen-terville. By this timePope was ready to re-turn West, a confessedfailure in Virginia, afailure more due, how-ever, to the jealousy ofleading subordinate of-ficers than to any lackof soldierly qualities. It was now Lees turnto assume a still
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