...on, the evening of the next day, in General Beauregard's quarters, with that officer, Major-General G. W. Smith, and myself. It was conceded that no decisive success could be gained by attacking General McClellan 's army in its position under the guns of a long line of forts. It was agreed, too, that decisive action before the winter was important to us; for it was certain that without it, when the spring ca...