...enses; from which the wearied troops of Lee could scarcely have ejected him. But it was not to be. When the shattered and torn Confederates drew off, like-lions at bay, from the horrid slopes of Malvern Hill leaving them drenched with priceless blood and piled thick with near one-third their number-McClellan declined further battle and withdrew his beaten army to the fleet. He had made a great retrea...