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THE BATTLE OF MALVERN HILL
MALVERN HILL, FROM THE DIRECTION OF TURKEYISLAND RRIDGE. FROM A SKETCH .MADESOON AFTER TIIE WAR.
VIEW FROM .MALVERN HILL, LOOKING TOWARD THEJAMES. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN IN 1885.
Tliis view is taken from near the position of Tyler’ssiege-guns (see map). The engagement of MalvernCliff, or Turkey Island bridge, on the 30th of June,between Generals Warren and Holmes, took place onthe road at the foot of the hill which passes near thehouse in the middle-ground. The bridge is to the lefton this road. The winding stream is Turkey Creek. Inthe middle distance is the position of the three gun-boats which shelled the woods at the right both on the30tli of Juue and the 1st of July.— Editors.
Woodbury and Cass were then lyingbefore them. J Colonel McQuade wasthe only regimental commander of Griffin’s brigade who escaped deathduring the Seven Days, and he was constantly exposed.
During that ominous silence of which I have spoken, I determined that ouropponents should reap no advantage, even if our lines yielded to attack, andtherefore posted batteries, as at Gaines’s Mill, to secure against the disasterof a break in our lines, should such a misfortune he ours. For this purposeI sent Weed, Carlisle, and Smead, with their batteries, to the gorge of theroads on Crew’s Hill, from which the enemy must emerge in pursuit if heshould break our lines ; instructing them to join in the fight if necessary, butnot to permit the advance of the foe, even if it must be arrested at the risk offiring upon friends. To these Colonel Hunt added three batteries of horseartillery. Though they were all thus posted and their guns loaded with doublecanister, “ they were,” as Captain Smead reported, “ very happy to find theirservices not needed on that occasion.”
} Colonel Samuel W. Black, of the 62d Pennsylvania, Colonel John W. McLane, of the 83d Pennsyl-vania, Colonel Jesse A. Gove, of the 22d Massachusetts, Colonel Dwight A. Woodbury, of the 4th Michi-gan, aud Colonel Thomas Cass, of the 9th Massachusetts . — Editors.