Flat Top Mountain. — A clear, hot, healthy summer
day. General McClellan telegraphs that he has had a “desperate battle”; a part
of his army across the Chickahominy, is attacked “by superior numbers”; they “unaccountably
break”; our loss heavy, the enemy's “must be enormous”; enemy “took advantage
of the terrible storm.” All this is not very satisfactory. General McClellan's
right wing is caught on the wrong side of a creek raised by the rains, loses
its “guns and baggage.” A great disaster is prevented; this is all, but it will
demonstrate that the days of Bull Run are past.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 284
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