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An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps., Chapter 26
Chapter 26:
Battle of the Chickahominy, or seven pines
the plan of battle
annihilation of the enemy's left
loss of either army
General Johnston wounded.
On Friday, the thirtieth of May, our camps presented nothing unusual, nor were any movements in progress that indicated the early commencement of hostilities.
During the night, a thunderstorm of unusual violence shook the heavens, and rain fell so heavily that the whole face of the country was deluged with water.
The men in camp were exposed to all the violence of the storm, and the roads were rendered impassable, with mud three feet deep.
The enemy were even worse off than ourselves, as the bottom lands at the head of the Chickahominy were flooded, and the stream itself much swollen.
Active operations on their right were impossible.
Early in the morning (Saturday, May thirty-first) it was whispered that Johnston intended attacking their left; but in answer to the inquiry, In such weather?
it was answered