ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOLUME 2.

Maps: 

Environs of Richmond.

Battle of Gaines’ mill.

The seven days.  June 26 to July 2, 1862.

BATTLE OF MALVERN HILL

Environs of Warrenton.

Battle of cedar run.

Situation on August 27 (sunset), 1862.

Situation on August 28 (sunset), 1862.

Positions on August 29, 1862.

Groveton and second Manassas.

POSITIONS ON AUGUST 30, 1862, IN THE ATTACK ON JACKSON

Positions on August 30, 1862.

Harper’s ferry.

Sharpsburg.

Positions during the attacks of Hooker and Mansfield at Sharpsburg.

Fredericksburg.

Hooker’s plan of campaign.

Battle of Chancellorsville.

STONEWALL JACKSON.

CHAPTER 2.13.

The seven days.  Gaines’ mill.

1862.

The region whither the interest now shifts is very different from the Valley.  From the terraced banks of the Rappahannock, sixty miles north of Richmond, to the shining reaches of the James, where the capital of the Confederacy stands high on her seven hills, the lowlands of Virginia are clad with luxuriant vegetation.  The roads and railways run through endless avenues of stately trees; the shadows of the giant oaks lie far across the rivers, and ridge and ravine are mantled with the unbroken foliage of the primeval forest.  In this green wilderness the main armies were involved.  But despite the beauty of broad rivers and sylvan solitudes, gay with gorgeous blossoms and fragrant with aromatic shrubs, the eastern, or tidewater, counties of Virginia had little to recommend them as a theatre of war.  They were sparsely settled.  The wooden churches, standing lonely in the groves where the congregations hitched their horses; the solitary taverns, half inns and half stores; the court-houses of the county justices, with a few wooden cottages clustered round them, were poor substitutes for the market-towns of the Shenandoah.  Here and there on the higher levels, surrounded by coppice and lawn, by broad acres of corn and clover, the manors of the planters gave life and brightness to the landscape.  But the men were fighting in Lee’s ranks, their families had fled to Richmond, and these hospitable homes showed signs of poverty and neglect.  Neither food nor