| Rating: |
7.6 (2) |
| Games Played: |
1 |
| SM: |
4 |
| Turns: |
43 |
| Type: |
Custom |
| First Side: |
CSA |
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Union |
BATTLE OF MALVERN HILL - (JULY 1, 1862) --- HISTORICAL DAY 7 --- Narrowly averting defeat at Glendale, the Army of the Potomac continued its retreat to the James River, taking up defensive positions at Haxall's Landing and Malvern Hill. After briefly overseeing his dispositions, General McClellan once again left the front, boarding the U.S.S. Galena and leaving the conduct of the battle to his subordinates. General Lee, seething over his inability to catch and destroy McClellan's army, saw his plans, though not imaginative to begin with, devolve once again into a brutal frontal assault. The expected massed artillery bombardment did not occur and the attacking Confederate infantry was slaughtered on the lower slopes of Malvern Hill. Commenting after the fight on the appearance of the battlefield, Union Colonel W.W. Averell observed that the struggling wounded gave the field "a singular crawling effect". Confederate General D.H. Hill famously said "It was not war---it was murder."
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