. 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 . halted, and called loudly for the Federals quarreled and complained, Lee wasbusy reorganizing his army, and turning it into that splendidfighting machine which, thenceforth, it proved to be. Hedivided it into six divisions, and placed an experiencedgeneral over each. Longstreet, of whom much will appearlater, had the extreme right division. Next to him, andin order towards the left as named, were Huger, D. , Magruder, Whiting a
. 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 . halted, and called loudly for the Federals quarreled and complained, Lee wasbusy reorganizing his army, and turning it into that splendidfighting machine which, thenceforth, it proved to be. Hedivided it into six divisions, and placed an experiencedgeneral over each. Longstreet, of whom much will appearlater, had the extreme right division. Next to him, andin order towards the left as named, were Huger, D. , Magruder, Whiting and A. P. Hill, who commandedthe extreme left. An independent division, later under theorders of Lee, but now moving independently, was that ofGeneral Jackson — afterwards famous as Stonewall Jack-son— who was at this time operating in the ShenandoahValley, with the object in view of so threatening Washingtonthat no reinforcements could be withdrawn from the vicinityof the National Capitol to send to McClellan. His totaleffective force soon amounted to about ninety thousand men,including Jacksons command. McClellan, his antagonist,. mcclellans position. 279 had about one hundred and fifteen thousand, but not soeffective, because about twenty thousand were unfit for dutyon account of sickness, owing to their position along theswampy banks of the river. Lee, beHeving that he now had an army upon which hecould depend, began to seek an opportunity of striking ablow. His genius, hitherto quiet, suddenly blazed , after the battle at Seven Pines, had transferredthe bulk of his troops to the south side of the river, and theynow lay out toward Richmond. But he had left General FitzJohn Porter with about thirty thousand men on the north sideof the river, with his van pushed out towards Mechanicsville,for the avowed purpose of protecting his supply line, con-necting him with White House, his depot on the a part of the army was separated from the mainbody b
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