Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Gen. Lee” in chapter 17 of Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders.:
...ectation in Richmond, which had looked for the capitulation or annihilation of McClellan's entire forces, after they had been driven from the north side of the Chickahominy.
Of this disappointment, Gen. Lee writes: Under ordinary circumstances, the Federal army should have been destroyed.
Its escape was due to causes already stated.
Prominent among these was the want of correct and timely informatio...
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