. The lives and campaigns of Grant and Lee. A comparison and contrast of the deeds and characters of the two great leaders in the civil war . d, the Confederate forces here wouldhave been routed. But McClellan was intent upon reachingthe river safely, and would hazard nothing. He was con-tent to have beaten off his pursuer for the time, and duringthe night he succeeded in withdrawing his army intact fromits dif^cult position, and concentrating it on Malvern Hill,on the banks of the James river. Lee had made a great mistake in dividing his army andsending almost half of it with Jackson to be he
. The lives and campaigns of Grant and Lee. A comparison and contrast of the deeds and characters of the two great leaders in the civil war . d, the Confederate forces here wouldhave been routed. But McClellan was intent upon reachingthe river safely, and would hazard nothing. He was con-tent to have beaten off his pursuer for the time, and duringthe night he succeeded in withdrawing his army intact fromits dif^cult position, and concentrating it on Malvern Hill,on the banks of the James river. Lee had made a great mistake in dividing his army andsending almost half of it with Jackson to be held at bay all dayin White Oak Swamp. Had he sent a small force to pursueinto the swamp, and thus have deceived the enemy, he couldhave hurled at least fifty thousand men upon McClellan atGlendale and have doubtless broken his army in mistake here saved McClellans army. He was enragedat the thought of the enemy escaping with so little harm,and he gathered all his host during the night and forenoonof the next day to make a final effort to crush him at this,his last stand. Lee gathered his army together near the bloody field of. ■m« ^^^«.>^itMfo€ifife^li ^
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