. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers, based upon "The Century war series." . ttomsBridge, by way of White Oak Bridge and CharlesCity Court House, to the James Eiver and com-municated with the gun-boat fleet. After the bat-tle of Seven Pines, General Lee determined to defend Eichmond on the line then held by his fact, in connection with the success of Gen-eral Jackson in fi-eeing the Shenandoah Valley ofUnion forces, restored the confidence of the peopleat Eichmond. A large draft of soldiers from theranks furn
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers, based upon "The Century war series." . ttomsBridge, by way of White Oak Bridge and CharlesCity Court House, to the James Eiver and com-municated with the gun-boat fleet. After the bat-tle of Seven Pines, General Lee determined to defend Eichmond on the line then held by his fact, in connection with the success of Gen-eral Jackson in fi-eeing the Shenandoah Valley ofUnion forces, restored the confidence of the peopleat Eichmond. A large draft of soldiers from theranks furnished a laboring force to build intrench-ments, and slaves in the counties around Eich-mond were impressed for the work. On the 18th of June, Brigadier-General CuvierGrovers brigade, of Hookers division, made areconnoissance between the Williamsburg road andthe railroad, and found the Confederates in forcebehind earth-works. The divisions of Hooker andKearny advanced on the 25th to a point called OakGrove, about four miles from Eichmond, in fi-ont ofSeven Pines. This was the nearest approach toEichmond during the investment by McClellan. THE NAVY IN THE PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN, BY PROFESSOR JAMES RUSSELL SOLEY, IT. S. N. AT the opening of the Peninsular campaign, April 1st, 1862, the North Atlan--^^ tic Squadion, with its headquarters at Hampton Roads, was commandedby Flag-Officer Louis M. Goldsborough. The command included not onlythe operations in the Chesapeake and its tributary waters, but an entirelydistinct series of operations in the sounds of North Carolina, and a thiid dis-tinct and also very important service,— that of the Wilmington concentration of command at a distance from the various fields ofaction was not without injurious results. The attention of the flag-officercould not be successfully directed at the same instant of time to such variedand complicated movements as were simultaneously in progiess in the YorkRiver, the James River, Hampt
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