Malvern Hill
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The Battle of Malvern Hill is the nearest approach to melodrama.
From Time Magazine Archive
The enemy, although their batteries were successfully defended last night at Malvern Hill; abandoned many guns after the charges ceased, and retreated hastily.
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp
General Hooker’s force, amounting to twenty thousand men, advanced rapidly on to Malvern Hill.
From Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery by Reichardt, Theodore
The events which had immediately preceded Malvern Hill are too fresh in the minds of the people to need any extended recapitulation.
From Shoulder-Straps A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 by Morford, Henry
He posted McCall’s division in front of Charles City cross-roads; his divisions under Morell and Sykes at Malvern Hill, and Warren’s brigade, near the Fourth Corps, on the river routes from Richmond.
From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by Longstreet, James
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