. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . ad they seen ten years of such material for soldiers was ever in thefield before, and their behavior in this move-ment foreshadowed that of the successful vet-erans of Appomattox, W. B. Franklin. THE SEVEN DAYS FIGHTING ABOUT RICHMOND: WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE BATTLE OF FRAYSERS FARM (jUNE 30, 1862).* HEN General Jo-seph E. Johnstonwas wounded atthe battle of Sev-enPines, and Gen-eral Lee assumedhis new duties ascommander of theArmy of NorthernVirginia, GeneralStonewall Jacksonwas in the Vir-ginia Valley, andthe rest of the C
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . ad they seen ten years of such material for soldiers was ever in thefield before, and their behavior in this move-ment foreshadowed that of the successful vet-erans of Appomattox, W. B. Franklin. THE SEVEN DAYS FIGHTING ABOUT RICHMOND: WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE BATTLE OF FRAYSERS FARM (jUNE 30, 1862).* HEN General Jo-seph E. Johnstonwas wounded atthe battle of Sev-enPines, and Gen-eral Lee assumedhis new duties ascommander of theArmy of NorthernVirginia, GeneralStonewall Jacksonwas in the Vir-ginia Valley, andthe rest of the Con-federate troopswere east andnorth of Rich-mond in front ofGeneral GeorgeB. McClellansarmy, then en-camped about theChickahominy River,one hundred and fifteenthousand strong, and preparing for a regularsiege of the Confederate capital. The situa-tion required prompt and successful action byGeneral Lee. Very early in June he calledabout him, on the noted Xine-milc road near The ubual spelline is Frazicr or Prazer. The auth*KX, of Kichmond.— cinl loncstrekts bodv- SAKVANT, SAH, ESOUin DC WAII Richmond, all his commanders, and askedeach in turn his opinion of the military situa-tion. I had my own views, but did not ex-press them, believing that if they were importantit was equally important they should be un-folded privately to the commanding next day I called on General Lee, andsuggested my plan for driving the Federalforces away from the Chickahominy. Mc-Clellan had a small force at Mechanicsville,and farther back, at Beaver Dam Creek, a con-siderable portion of his army in a strongholdthat was simply unassailable from the banks of Beaver Dam Creek were so steepas to be impassable except on bridges. I pro-posed an echelon movement, and suggestedthat Jackson be called down from the Valley,and passed to the rear of the Federal right, inorder to turn the position behind Beaver Dam,while the rest of the Confederate forces whowere to engage in the atta
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