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reaching Frayser’s farm until the day after that battle. If he had been there,we might have destroyed or captured McClellan ’s army. Huger was in posi-tion for the battle of Frayser’s farm, and after his batteries had misled meinto opening the fight he subsided. Holmes and Magruder, who were on theNew Market road to attack the Federals as they passed that way, failed to do so.
General McClellan ’s retreat was successfully managed; therefore we mustgive it credit for being well managed. He had 100,000 men, and insisted tothe authorities at Washington that Lee had 200,000. In fact, Lee had only90,000. General McClellan’s plan to take Richmond by a siege was wiseenough, and it would have been a success if the Confederates had consentedto such a programme. In spite of McClellan’s excellent plans, General Lee ,with a force inferior in numbers, completely routed him, and while sufferingless than McClellan, captured over ten thousand of his men.\ General Lee ’s
\ In this estimate General Longstreet follows General Lee ’s unspecific report. The Union returnsstate the “Captured or missing” of McClellan ’s army at 6053, and the total loss at 15,849. TheConfederate loss was 20,135.— Editors.