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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 3 : (search)
Chapter 3:
South Carolinians in Virginia
battle of Williamsburg
Eltham's landing
Seven Pines and Fair Oaks
Nine-mile road
Gaines' Mill
Savage Station
Frayser's Farm
Malvern Hill
In Virginia, Gen. George B. McClellan had been p seriously threatened on the second day after the battle at Williamsburg, May 7th.
The menace came from the direction of Eltham's landing, at the head of the York, where General McClellan was disembarking several of the divisions of his army.
Frank nd a battery.
The affair occurred for the most part in the woods east and west of the road leading from Barhamsville to Eltham's landing, and within range of the guns of the vessels in York river.
Arriving before the defenses of Richmond, Genera ion of the landings on the James.
His cavalry, under Stuart, was immediately in observation of the troops of Franklin at Eltham, and of General McClellan's main advance from Williamsburg.
The Federal army moved up the peninsula by the roads leading