...oon after the battle of Seven Pines (called in Northern prints Fair Oaks ) General R. E. Lee, commanding, sent for General Rains and said to him: The enemy have upwards of one hundred vessels in the James river , and we think that they are about making an advance that way upon Richmond, and if there is a man in the whole Southern Confederacy that can stop them, you are the man. Will you undertake it? I wi...