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Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A., Chapter 5 : operations along Bull Run . (search)
Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A., Chapter 6 : manoeuvring on the Peninsula . (search)
Chapter 6: manoeuvring on the Peninsula.
I landed and reported to General Magruder on the morning of the 9th of April.
After the abandonment of the line of Bull Run by our troops, McClellan had moved the greater part of his army to the Peninsula, and by the 4th of April had landed about 100,000 men at or near Fortress Monroe.
Magruder at that time occupied the lower Peninsula with a force which did not exceed in effective men 7,000 or 8,000.
Upon this force McClellan advanced with his immense army, when Magruder fell back to the line of Warwick River, extending from Yorktown on York River across James River, and checked the enemy's advance.
McClellan then sat down before the fortifications at Yorktown and along Warwick River and began a siege by regular approaches.
When I arrived at Magruder's headquarters, I was informed by him that his force, before the arrival of mine, amounted to 12,000, he having been reinforced since the enemy's advance, by troops from the south