Identifier: civilwarthroughc00elso (find matches)
Title: The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Elson, Henry William, 1857- Brady, Mathew B., ca. 1823-1896 Civil War Semi-centennial Society Patriot Pub. Co., Springfield, Mass
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Publisher: Springfield, Mass. : Patriot Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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THE SEVEN DAYS BATTLES g <~\\ McClellans one hope, one purpose, was to march his army out ofthe swamps and escape from the ceaseless Confederate assaults to a pointon James River where the resistless fire of the gunboats might protect hismen from further attack and give them a chance to rest. To that end,he retreated night and dav, standing at bay now and then as the huntedstag does, and fighting desperately for the poor privilege of running away. And the splendid fighting of his men was a tribute to the skill andgenius with which he had created an effective army out of what he haddescribed as regiments cowering upon the banks of the Potomac, someperfectly raw, others dispirited by recent defeat, others going home.Out of a demoralized and disorganized mass reenforced by utterly un-trained civilians, McClellan had within a few months created an armycapable of stubbornlv contesting every inch of ground even while effectinga retreat the very thought of which might well have disorganiz

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