. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers, based upon "The Century war series." . ilently by them. He had to pass withineasy range of the artillery of Longstreet and Hill, but they did not know hewas there. It had been a gallant fight on their part. General Lee reported:Many prisoners, including a general of division, McCall, were captured,and several batteries, with some thousands of small-arms, were taken. Butas an obstruction to the Federal retreat, the fight amounted to nothing. i After the appearance of this article in
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers, based upon "The Century war series." . ilently by them. He had to pass withineasy range of the artillery of Longstreet and Hill, but they did not know hewas there. It had been a gallant fight on their part. General Lee reported:Many prisoners, including a general of division, McCall, were captured,and several batteries, with some thousands of small-arms, were taken. Butas an obstruction to the Federal retreat, the fight amounted to nothing. i After the appearance of this article in The man belonged to my company and told us, when he Century magazine, E. McLaughlin, of East Sagi- came to the company at Malvern Hill, that he had naw, Michigan, wrote me that he was a member been inside your lines and had been repeatedly of Co. C of the 7th Maine Volunteers, General shot at. He further said that if he had had one W. F. Smiths division, ami said: The statement more canteen of whisky he could have held the in regard to the drunken Irishman is true. That position all day.—D. H. H. MCCLELLANS CHANGE OF BASE AND MALVERN HILL. 389. wtr- The view is from Franklins positionsouth of the bridge, Jacksons and D. troops being seen in the distance. Major Dabney, in his life of Jackson, thus comments on the inaction ofthat officer: On this occasion it would appear, if the vast interests depend-ent upon General Jacksons cooperation with the proposed attack upon thecenter were considered, that he came short of the efficiency in action forwhich he was everywhere else noted. After showing how the crossing ofWhite Oak might have been effected, Dabney adds: The list of casualtieswoidd have been larger than that presented on the 30th, of one cannoneerwounded; but how much shorter would have been the bloody list filled upthe next day at Malvern Hill ? This temporary eclipse of Jacksons geniuswas probably to be explained by physical causes. The labor of the pi*eviousdays
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