. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . ing the whole time between June 26th and July2d, there was not a night in which the men did not march almost continually,nor a day on which there was not a fight. I never saw a skulker during thewhole time, nor heard one insubordinate word. Some men fell by the way-side, exhausted, and were captured; but their misfortune was due to physicalinability to go on. They had no food but that which was carried in their hav-ersacks, and the hot weather soon rendered that uneatable. Sleep w
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . ing the whole time between June 26th and July2d, there was not a night in which the men did not march almost continually,nor a day on which there was not a fight. I never saw a skulker during thewhole time, nor heard one insubordinate word. Some men fell by the way-side, exhausted, and were captured; but their misfortune was due to physicalinability to go on. They had no food but that which was carried in their hav-ersacks, and the hot weather soon rendered that uneatable. Sleep was out ofthe question, and the only rest obtained was while lying down awaiting anattack, or sheltering themselves from shot and shell. No murmur was heard;everything was accepted as the work for which they had enlisted. They hadbeen soldiers less than a year, yet their conduct could not have been moresoldierly had they seen ten years of service. No such material for soldiers wasever in the field before, and their behavior in this movement foreshadowedtheir success as veterans at Appomattox. ; ■■■■■. WOODBURYS BRIDGE ACROSS THE CHICKAHOMINY [SEE NEXT PAGE]. FROM A WAR-TIME PHOTOGRAPH. MCCLELLANS CHANGE OF BASE AND MALVERN HILL. BY DANIEL H. HILL, LIEUTENANT-GENERAL, C. S. A. FIVE of the six Confederate divisions north of the Chiekahominy at theclose of the battle of Gainess Mill remained in bivouac all the next day(June 28th), it being deemed too hazardous to force the passage of the was sent with his division to Dispatch Station on the York River Rail-road. He found the station and the railroad-bridge burnt. J. E. B. Stuart,who followed the retreating Federal cavalry to White House on the Pamun-key, found ruins of stations and stores all along the line. These thingsproved that General McClellan did not intend to retreat by the shortline of the York River Railroad; but it was possible he might take theWilliamsburg road. General Lee, therefore, kept his tro
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