. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . 1 111, I Kl I ; \ K lNot until after nightfall of June ^6, 1862, did the Confederates of CJeneral A. P. Hills division cease their assaults upon thisposition where General McCalls men were strongly entrenched. Time after time the Confederates charged over the ground we seehere at Ellersons Mill, near Mechanicsville. Till 9 oclock at night they continued to pour volleys at the position, and then at lastwithdrew. The victory was of little use to the Federals, for Jackson on the morrow, having executed one of the flanking nig
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . 1 111, I Kl I ; \ K lNot until after nightfall of June ^6, 1862, did the Confederates of CJeneral A. P. Hills division cease their assaults upon thisposition where General McCalls men were strongly entrenched. Time after time the Confederates charged over the ground we seehere at Ellersons Mill, near Mechanicsville. Till 9 oclock at night they continued to pour volleys at the position, and then at lastwithdrew. The victory was of little use to the Federals, for Jackson on the morrow, having executed one of the flanking nightmarches at which he was an adept, fell upon the Federal rear at Gaines ^ THE WASTE OF WAR Railroad trains loaded with tons of food and ammunition were run deliberately at full speed off the embankment shown in the leftforeground. They plunged headlong into the waters of the Pamunkey. This was the readiest means that ^McClellan could devisefor keeping his immense quantity of stores out of the hands of the Confederates in his hasty change of base from White House to theJames after Gaines Mill. This was the bridge of the Richmond and York River Railroad, and was destroyed June £8, 1802, torender the railroad useless to the Confederates. A belching forth its sheets of fire and lead into the beleaguredcity. In front of the Union encampment, near Fair Oaks, wasa thick entanglement of scrubby pines, vines, and raggedbushes, full of ponds and marshes. This strip of woodlandwas less than five hundred yards Avide. Beyond it was an openfield half a mile in width. The Union soldiers pressed throughthe thicket to see A\hat was on the other side and met the Con-federat
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