More fighting to-day. The enemy, although their batteries
were successfully defended last night at Malvern Hill, abandoned many guns
after the charges ceased, and retreated hastily. The grand army of invasion is
now some twenty-five miles from the city, and yet the Northern papers claim the
victory. They say it was a masterly strategic movement of McClellan, and a premeditated
change of base from the Pamunky to the James; and that he will certainly take
Richmond in a week and end the rebellion.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 140
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