. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . t out our skirmish-lines, and I ordered an advance,intending to make another attack, but revoked it on Jackson urging me towait until the arrival of General Lee. Very soon General Lee came, and,after carefully considering the position of the enemy and of their gun-boatson the James, decided that it would lie better to forego any further opera-tions. Our skirmish-lines were withdrawn, we ordered our troops back totheir old lines around Richmond, and a month later McClellans army wa
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . t out our skirmish-lines, and I ordered an advance,intending to make another attack, but revoked it on Jackson urging me towait until the arrival of General Lee. Very soon General Lee came, and,after carefully considering the position of the enemy and of their gun-boatson the James, decided that it would lie better to forego any further opera-tions. Our skirmish-lines were withdrawn, we ordered our troops back totheir old lines around Richmond, and a month later McClellans army waswithdrawn to the North. The Seven Days Fighting, although a decided Confederate victory, was asuccession of mishaps. If Jackson had arrived on the 26th,—the day of hisown selection,—the Federals would have been driven back from Mechanics-ville without a battle. His delay there, caused by obstructions placed in hisroad by the enemy, was the first mishap. He was too late in entering thefight at Gainess Mill, and the destruction of Grapevine Bridge kept him from 404 THE SEJ/EN DAYS, INCLUDING FRAYSERS GENERAL GEORGE A. McCALL. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH. reaching Fraysers farm until the day after that battle. If he had been there,we might have destroyed or captured McClellans army. Huger was in posi-tion for the battle of Fraysers farm, and after his batteries had misled meinto opening the fight he subsided. Holmes and Magruder, who were on theNew Market road to attack the Federals as they passed that way, failed to do McClellans retreat was successfully managed; therefore we mustgive it credit for being well managed. He had 100,000 men, and insisted tothe authorities at Washington that Lee had 200,000. In fact, Lee had only90,000. General McClellans plan to take Richmond by a siege was wiseenough, and it would have been a success if the Confederates had consentedto such a programme. In spite of McClellans excellent plans, General Lee,with a force inferior in numbers
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