. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers, based upon "The Century war series." . HANOVER COURT HOUSE AND GAINESS MILL. BY PITZ JOHN PORTER, MAJOR-GENERAL, U. S. V. UNDER the direction of General McClellan certain measures for the protec-tion of the right flank of the army in its advance upon Richmond wereput in my hands, beginning simultaneously with the march of the army fromthe Pamunkey. J Among these were the clearing of the enemy from theupper Peninsula as far as Hanover Court House or beyond, and, in case Gen-eral McD
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers, based upon "The Century war series." . HANOVER COURT HOUSE AND GAINESS MILL. BY PITZ JOHN PORTER, MAJOR-GENERAL, U. S. V. UNDER the direction of General McClellan certain measures for the protec-tion of the right flank of the army in its advance upon Richmond wereput in my hands, beginning simultaneously with the march of the army fromthe Pamunkey. J Among these were the clearing of the enemy from theupper Peninsula as far as Hanover Court House or beyond, and, in case Gen-eral McDowells large forces, then at Fredericksburg, were not to join us,the destruction of railroad and other bridges over the South and Pamunkeyrivers, in order to prevent the enemy in large force from getting into ourrear from that direction, and in order, fm^ther, to cut the Virginia CentralRailroad, the one great line of the enemys communications between Rich-mond and Northern Virginia. A portion of this duty had been accompHshed along the Pamunkey as faras was deemed prudent by Colonel G. forces, posted at Old Church,when on the 26th of M
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