. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . worklineri with infantry. It is magnificent, but itis not war, was the sarcastic remark of the French general as he looked on at the Britishcavalry charge at Balaklava. The attacks onthe Beaver Dam intrenchnients, on the heightsof Malvern Hill, at Gettysburg, etc., wereall grand, but of exactly the kind of grandeurwhich the South could not afford. A brisk cannonade was kept up on themorning of the 27 th for an hour or more fromthe Federal artillery along the line of BeaverDam, which was held by a thin line of skir-mishers, the main force hav
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . worklineri with infantry. It is magnificent, but itis not war, was the sarcastic remark of the French general as he looked on at the Britishcavalry charge at Balaklava. The attacks onthe Beaver Dam intrenchnients, on the heightsof Malvern Hill, at Gettysburg, etc., wereall grand, but of exactly the kind of grandeurwhich the South could not afford. A brisk cannonade was kept up on themorning of the 27 th for an hour or more fromthe Federal artillery along the line of BeaverDam, which was held by a thin line of skir-mishers, the main force having retreated toCainess Mill and New Cold Harbor. A. division was ordered to pursue on to themill, and my division to take the BethesdaChurch road to join Jackson. The works on thatroadwere turned by mydivision,andsomesixtyor seventy prisonersholding them were captured. Major Dabney says: (General Jackson continued his march ontile morning of the 27th. When I overtookhim he was dismounted in the turnpike road THE BATTLE OE GAINESS MILL. 299. MECHANICSVILLE FROM THE NORTH-WEST—SCENE OF THE OPENING OF THE SEVEN DAYS* BATTLES.(drawn by harry FENN AFTER A PHOTOGRAPH BY E. S. ANDERSON, RICHMOND, VA.) [The cross-roads (Mechanicsville proper) are indicated by the two houses at the extreme right. The woods in the left distance show the line ofBeaver Dam Creelc at the crossing of the upper road from the town. A. P. Hill advanced from Meadow Bridge and along the in the fore-ground, his troops deploying at this point on both sides of the road about 4 P. M. The house at the left center (Horns marks the location of theUnion battery which opened upon Hills troops as they came along this road, from which the Confederate artillery (Mcintoshs and Icgrams repliedas they advanced. Andersons brigade was sent to the left to flank the Union guns, which, together with the single regiment left m the tovra byGeneral Porter, withdrew before the enemy to the strong position beyond the cre
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