To-day Gen. Magruder led his division into action at Malvern
Hill, it is said, contrary to the judgment of other commanders. The enemy's
batteries commanded all the approaches in most advantageous position, and
fearful was the slaughter. A wounded soldier, fresh from the field to-night,
informs me that our loss in killed in this engagement will amount to as many as
have fallen in all the others combined.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 140
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