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The Daily Dispatch: July 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], The "official" report of McClellan (search)
s victory for them. I therefore yielded to the wishes of my heroic boys and resolved to toll the rebels on.--When the belligerents at Sebastopol gained a brilliant battle they held the field; my abandonment of Malvin Hill was, therefore, different from anything done at Sebastopol. I flatter myself that I have seriously crippled the enemy by leaving another large lot of sick and wounded in his hands. I had almost forgotten to state that I have abandoned in all about fifty of my magnificent Parrott and Napoleon guns. The enemy will be compelled to feed a large number of horses to transport these guns, and it is difficult to imagine how starving rebeldom can support such a burden. It is very gratifying to report the excellent health of my men, notwithstanding their fatigue. A report on the 1st July that Stuart's cavalry was in our rear, developed the fact that our untiring boys could march five miles in an hour! That they might march with greater ease, all threw away their knapsack