. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . t after Gaines Mill, McClellans army was straining every nerve to extricate itself and present a strong front toLee before he could strike a telling blow at its untenable position. Wagon trains were struggling across the almost impassable WhiteOak Swamp, while the troops were striving to hold Savages Station to protect the movement. Thither on flat cars were sent thewounded as we see them in the picture. The rear guard of the Army of the Potomac had hastily provided s
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . t after Gaines Mill, McClellans army was straining every nerve to extricate itself and present a strong front toLee before he could strike a telling blow at its untenable position. Wagon trains were struggling across the almost impassable WhiteOak Swamp, while the troops were striving to hold Savages Station to protect the movement. Thither on flat cars were sent thewounded as we see them in the picture. The rear guard of the Army of the Potomac had hastily provided such field hospital facili-ties as they could. We see the camp near the railroad with the passing wagon trains in the lower picture. But attention to thesewounded men was, perforce, secondary to the necessity of holding the position. Their hopes of relief from their suffering were to beblighted. Lee was about to fall upon the Federal rear guard at Savages Station. Instead of to a haven of refuge, these men werebeing railroaded toward the field of carnage, where they must of necessity be left by their retreating THE STAAD AT SA\AGES STATIONHere we see part of the encampment to hold which the divisions of Richardson, Sedgwick, Smith, and Franklin fought valiantly whenMagruder and the Confederates fell upon them, June 29, 1862. .\long the Richmond & York River Railroad, seen in the picture,the Confederates rolled a heavy rifled gun, mounted on car-wheels. They turned its deadly fire steadily upon the defenders. TheFederals fought fiercely and managed to hold their ground till nightfall, when hundreds of their bravest soldiers lay on the fieldand had to be left alone with their wounded comrades who had arrived on the flat cars.
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