. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . army, which was encamped onthe wide, level plain between the wood-skirted road and the Pamunkey River, oc-cupying tents of all descriptions. Anothercamp was located at Cumberland Landing,a few miles below White House. The firstnight of our arrival was a stormy and tem-pestuous one, and it was evident that an at-tack from the enemy was expected, as wereceived orders to lay upon our arms. The Pamunkey is navigable to this point, havingsufficient dejjth, but is very narrow,— in fact,so narrow that some of the larger steamerscould not turn, for
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . army, which was encamped onthe wide, level plain between the wood-skirted road and the Pamunkey River, oc-cupying tents of all descriptions. Anothercamp was located at Cumberland Landing,a few miles below White House. The firstnight of our arrival was a stormy and tem-pestuous one, and it was evident that an at-tack from the enemy was expected, as wereceived orders to lay upon our arms. The Pamunkey is navigable to this point, havingsufficient dejjth, but is very narrow,— in fact,so narrow that some of the larger steamerscould not turn, for their stem and stern wouldreach either bank, except at selected broad plain was crowded with tents,baggage-wagons, pontoon trains, and artillery,— all the accompaniments of a vast ami) some of the regiments who came outfrom home in a Zouave uniform changed theirbright clothes for the regular army blue, and,as marching orders came with the sunrise,moved off the field, leaving windrows of oldclothes on the plain. Warren Lee yiMtSHCUM MEMORANDA ON THE CIVIL WAR. General R. S. Ewell at Bull Run. WITH UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF GENERALS FITZHUGH LEE,EWELL, AND BEAUREGARD. In General Beauregards article on Bull Run, onpage loi of the November Century, is this severecriticism of one of his subordinates: The commander of the front line on my right,who failed to move because he received no immediateorder, was instructed in the plan of attack, and shouldhave gone forward the moment General Jones, uponwhose right he was to form, exhibited his own order,which mentioned one as having been already sent tothat commander I exonerated him after the battle,as he was technically not in the wrong ; but one couldnot help recalling Desaix, who even moved in a direc-tion opposite to his technical orders when facts plainlyshowed him the service he ought to perform, whencethe glorious result of Marengo, or help believing thatif Jackson had been there, the movement would nothave
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