. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . an hoin- not a musket Aias fired. The army of blueremained motionless. Then the mass of gray moved acrossthe field and from the Union guns the long tongues of flamedarted into the ranks before them. The charge was met withvigor and soon the battle raged over the entire field. Bothsides stood their ground till darkness again closed the contest,and nearly eight himdred brave men had fallen in this Sabbathevenings battle. Before midnight Sumner had withdrawn hismen and was following after the wagon trains. The Confederates
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . an hoin- not a musket Aias fired. The army of blueremained motionless. Then the mass of gray moved acrossthe field and from the Union guns the long tongues of flamedarted into the ranks before them. The charge was met withvigor and soon the battle raged over the entire field. Bothsides stood their ground till darkness again closed the contest,and nearly eight himdred brave men had fallen in this Sabbathevenings battle. Before midnight Sumner had withdrawn hismen and was following after the wagon trains. The Confederates were pursuing McClellans army in twocolumns, Jackson closely following Sumner, while LongstreetMas trying to cut off the Union forces by a flank the last day of June, at high noon, Jackson reached theWhite Oak Swamji. But the bridge was gone. He attemptedto ford the jDassage, but the Union troops were there to preventit. AMiile Jackson was trying to force his way across thestream, there came to him the sound of a desperate battle being -I^T^ .T-^. -^^ ■:^feg^^^:^ HEROES OF MALVERN HILL Brigadier-General J. H. Martindale (seated) and his staff, July 1, 1862. Fitz John Porters Fifth Corps and Couehs division, FourthCorps, bore tlie brunt of battle at Malvern Hill where the troops of McClellan withstood the terrific attacks of Lees combined andsuperior forces. Fiery Prince John Magruder hurled column after column against the left of the Federal line, but every chargewas met and repulsed through the long hot summer afternoon. Martindales brigade of the Fifth Corps was early called into action,and its commander, by the gallant fighting of his troops, won the bre^-et of Major-General. ■.H:: ^. .-■ ^sf i B^MMf JJj^j^J pgi^M pi^K^^^^^H 9^9 Hh ■1:. ^n BMais-?^ Copyngld bi) fatriril Fuh. (n. THE NAVY LENDS A HAND Officers of the Monitor at Malvern Hill. Glad indeed were the men of the Army of the Potomac as they emerged from their perilousmarch across White Oak Swamp
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