. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . AIMING THE GUNS AT FAIR OAKS. Here we see the beginning of the hill in the fighting of thesecond day at Fair Oaks, which it has been asserted led to a fataldelay and the ruin of McClellans Peninsula Campaign. Thefirst days battle at Fair Oaks, May 31, 1862, was decidedly aFederal reverse which would have developed into a rout had notSumner, crossing his troops onthe perilous Grapevine Bridge,come up in time to rally theretreating men. Here wesee some of them
. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . AIMING THE GUNS AT FAIR OAKS. Here we see the beginning of the hill in the fighting of thesecond day at Fair Oaks, which it has been asserted led to a fataldelay and the ruin of McClellans Peninsula Campaign. Thefirst days battle at Fair Oaks, May 31, 1862, was decidedly aFederal reverse which would have developed into a rout had notSumner, crossing his troops onthe perilous Grapevine Bridge,come up in time to rally theretreating men. Here wesee some of them withinthe entrenchments at FairOaks Station on the Rich-mond & York River Rail-road. The order will sooncome to cease firing at theend of the second days fight-ing, the result of which was todrive the Confederates back toRichmond. McClellan did notpursue. The heavy rainstormon the night of May 30th hadmade the movement of artil-lery extremely difficult, andMcClellan waited to complete. the bridges and build entrenchments before delay gave the Confederates time to reorganize then-forces and place them under the new commander, RobertE. Lee, who while McClellan lay inactive effected ajunction with Stonewall Jackson. Then during theSeven Days BattlesLee steadily drove McClellanfrom his position, within fouror five miles of Richmond, to anew position on the JamesRiver. From this secure andadvantageous water base Mc-Clellan planned a new lineof advance upon the Confeder-ate Capital. In the smallerpicture we see the interior ofthe works at Fair Oaks Station,which were named Fort Sum-ner in honor of the General whobrought up his Second Corpsand saved the day. The campof the Second Corps is seenbeyond the fortifications tothe right. FORT SUMNER, NEAR FAIR OAKS. air ($aks—3ln ^igltt nf Strltmonb ^ •#• May 1862 <mMMMffim. posted themselves in this forest and were waiting for theirantagonists. The Federals marched upon the field in double-quick time; the
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