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An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps., Introduction. (search)
An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps., Chapter 33 : (search)
Chapter 33:
June twenty-sixth
commencement of the week's campaign before Richmond
battles of Mechanicsville, Beaver Dam Creek, and Ellison's Mills
terrific battle scene
preparations for a further advance.
The reader may picture to himself a party of officers belonging to the ragged rebels seated together at my window, comparing notes, and speculating on the probabilities of speedy hostilities.
McClellan seems to think he has not sufficient troops, and asks for more.
He makes the startling admission that he has lost not less than fifty thousand men since his arrival on the peninsula in March!
I cannot comprehend how this can be, unless sickness has decimated his ranks.
As he owns to have had one hundred and eighty-five thousand at that period, he must have one hundred and thirty-five thousand men now, unless the scattered remains of Banks's, Fremont's, Milroy's, and Shields's corps have been gathered and sent to him. There cannot be a doubt, however, that he ha