. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . ver, from the obstinacy of our adversa-ries at Fair Oaks, that the battle would notbe decided that day. I said so to the staffofficers near me, and told them that eachregiment must sleep where it might be stand-ing when the firing ceased for the night, tobe ready to renew it at dawn next morning. About half-past seven oclock I receiveda in the shoulder, and was un-horsed soon after by a heavy fragment of shellwhich struck my breast. I was borne from the field — first to ahouse on the roadside, thence to firing cease
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . ver, from the obstinacy of our adversa-ries at Fair Oaks, that the battle would notbe decided that day. I said so to the staffofficers near me, and told them that eachregiment must sleep where it might be stand-ing when the firing ceased for the night, tobe ready to renew it at dawn next morning. About half-past seven oclock I receiveda in the shoulder, and was un-horsed soon after by a heavy fragment of shellwhich struck my breast. I was borne from the field — first to ahouse on the roadside, thence to firing ceased before I had been carried a mile from it. The conflict at Fair Oaks waslerminatcd l)\- darkness only. Mr. Daviss account of what he saw anddid at Fair Oaks (Vol. IL, p. 123) indicatessingular ignorance (jf the topograjiliy of thevicinity, as well as of what was occurring. Hesays that the enemys line was on the hankof the river. It was at right angles to andsome three miles from it. He says that soonafter his arrival 1 was brought from the right. MAJOR-GENEKAL ERASMUS D. KEYES.(from A PHOTOGRAPH BY BRADY.) wounded. This proves that his arrival wasnear sunset. He also describes the movingof reenforcements from the left to the was not being done. The right wasabundantly strong. He says that he made areconnaissance — then sent three couriers oneafter the other, with an order to Magruder tosend a force by the wooded path under thebluff, to attack the enemy in flank and the first courier had been dispatched beforethe reconnaissance, and delivered the order toMagruder promptly, his force marching lit-tle more than a mile by the straight Nine-mileroad could scarcely have come up before route described would have been f if found)five or six miles long. The only thing he ought to have done, orhad time to do, was postponed almost twentyhours — the putting General Lee, who wasnear, in command of the army. The operations of the Confederate troojjsin th
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