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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., Hanover Court House and Gaines's Mill. (search)
0 engaged, while that of the Confederates was nearly 2000 out of some 10,000 attacking. Union forces engaged, 11 regiments, 6 batteries. Confederate forces engaged, 21 regiments, 8 batteries.--F. J. P. According to the official returns the total Union loss at Mechanicsville was 361, but little more than that of the 44th Georgia alone (335). The Confederate loss, exclusive of Field's and Anderson's brigades and of the batteries, is reported at 1589. General Longstreet is quoted by William Swinton as authority for putting the aggregate at between three and four thousand. ( Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, p.145.)--Editors. General McClellan had joined me on the battle-field at an early hour in the afternoon. While we discussed plans for the immediate future, influenced in our deliberations by the gratifying results of the day, numerous and unvarying accounts from our outposts and scouts toward the Pamunkey warned us of the danger impending on the arrival of Jackson, and
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., Lee's attacks north of the Chickahominy. (search)
nd return their fire, when, charging forward again, they broke and scattered in every direction. Their retreat was to the woods between the field and the river. Swinton gives credit to Hood and Law for making the first break in the Federal line, and quotes from Jackson's report: Dashing on with unfaltering step in the face of tho. H.H. In his attack upon General McClellan's right wing General Lee had 50,000 men. Dabney, in his Life of Jackson, puts the Confederate force at 40,000. Swinton estimates Porter's forces at 30,000 and Lee's at 70,000--an under and an over estimate respectively, I think.--D. H. H. General Porter (see foot-note, p. 336) the Federals and skillfully arranged for defense. During Lee's absence Richmond was at the mercy of McClellan; but Magruder was there to keep up a clatter, as Swinton expresses it. No one ever lived who could play off the Grand Seignior with a more lordly air than could Prince John, as Magruder was called. In ante-bellum day