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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 17: Pope's campaign in Virginia. (search)
the battle of Malvern Hills, when the shattered but victorious host was lying between Berkeley and Westover, that he had not over 50,000 men left with their colors! Dispatch by telegraph to the Secretary of War, July 3, 1862. What has become of the remainder of the one hundred and sixty thousand men who within a hundred days have gone to the Peninsula? was a problem very important for the Government to have solved, and the President went down to the headquarters at Harrison's Landing July 8 1862. in search of that solution. There he found: the remains of that splendid army greatly disheartened. Sadly and wearily it had waded through the mud and been pelted by a pitiless storm while marching from the field of its victory on Malvern Hills to its present humiliating position, during the night succeeding the contest. It had been covered from an attack on its march by a rear-guard of all arms under Colonel Averill, and menaced continually by Stuart and his cavalry, and columns of i