The world: historical and actual . BATTLEFIELD OF MALVERN Confederacy, was seriously woundbrought Gen-eral Lee to thefront, a posi-tion which hekept to thevery last. Both armieswere so badlycrippled thatneither feltlike takingthe Northedwin v. sumner. greatly cen- sured McClellan for remaining quietly in the malarial. • pi -\i 1 swamps of the 0 hickahominy, and the South re-gained confidence. This confidence showed itselfin the gallant but uneventful dash of Confederatecavalry under General Stuart within the verylines of the main Federal army. The battle of OakGrove
The world: historical and actual . BATTLEFIELD OF MALVERN Confederacy, was seriously woundbrought Gen-eral Lee to thefront, a posi-tion which hekept to thevery last. Both armieswere so badlycrippled thatneither feltlike takingthe Northedwin v. sumner. greatly cen- sured McClellan for remaining quietly in the malarial. • pi -\i 1 swamps of the 0 hickahominy, and the South re-gained confidence. This confidence showed itselfin the gallant but uneventful dash of Confederatecavalry under General Stuart within the verylines of the main Federal army. The battle of OakGrove was fought June 25. It was a comparativelysmall battle, but it was a victory for the Confeder-ates, and McClellen then gave up all aggressiveplans. It was no longer On to Richmond, butthe problem was How not to do it. The next dayJackson and A. P. Hill were directed by Lee to at-tack the Federal right. All day the battle raged,with indecisive results. The next day at the battle ofGaines Mills. Lee had hopes of capturing McClel-lan, and the latter sought to fall back upon theJames river in good order and with his the 27th Porter held the enemy at bay. The next day ren-dered sub-stantiallythesame serviceat the battleof SavageStation. Thethird daythe battleof FraziersFarm servedthe samenegative pur-pose, and du
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