due time we made our landing and found our place in the peninsular lines of Yorktown and Warwick River, which were admirably adapted to the purpose for which General Magruder designed and located them; namely, to enable a small body of troops to hold the position-but for occupation by a large army they were simply execrable.
Therrong memoir on this battle, from which it would seem well nigh impossible to draw any other conclusions.
He makes substantially the following points:
General Magruder had built, and was commended for building, a chain of redoubts across the Peninsula from the York to the James, as a second line; Fort Magruder, a strong cloey ought to have been informed.
Furthermore, it is evident that if a single general officer upon our side was fully informed as to — the entire line, it was General Magruder, who built it, and who, it seems, took no part in this battle.
Indeed, as I remember, he had been sent on toward Richmond.
As above intimated, it would see
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McCarthy, Daniel Stephens, 294-96.
McCarthy, Edward S.: family of, 294- 96; mentioned, 74, 85, 95, 159-60, 229, 260, 271, 291, 293-96.
McClellan, George Brinton, 74, 79, 88-89, 92-95, 101-104, 106-108, 125-26, 285
McDowell, Battle of, 218
McDaniel, Henry Dickerson, 220-21.
McGowan, Samuel, 57-58.
McGuire, Hunter Holmes, 105, 245-46, 351
McLaws, Lafayette: described, 223; mentioned, 129, 165, 168-69, 173- 79, 182, 192, 222-24, 231, 270
Machine guns, 76-77.
Magruder, John Bankhead, 75, 79-80, 94-97, 102, 107, 160
Mahone, William, 311
Malvern Hill, 41, 96-97, 101-18, 130, 146, 309
Manassas, Va.: first battle of, 41, 44- 48, 59, 111, 324; second battle of, 118-24, 191
Manly's Battery (N. C.), 154, 168, 301, 310
Marse Robert, 18-21.
Marshall, Charles, 226
Mascots, 170-72.
Massachusetts Infantry: 20th Regiment, 130
Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 79
Maury, Richard Launcelot, 79
Meade, George Gordon: Lee's comments on, 227-28; mentioned, 207