>Following the initial Confederate attack at Beaver Dam Creek, Fitz-John Porter withdrew three miles east and dug in along Boatswain's Creek.

>Following the initial Confederate attack at Beaver Dam Creek, Fitz-John Porter withdrew three miles east and dug in along Boatswain's Creek. There, nearly 2/3rds of the Army of Northern Virginia, six divisions and 60,000 men, confronted 30,000 Union troops in three divisions. A.P. Hill's division attacked first and was repulsed. Longstreet was also repulsed, and attacks by D.H. Hill on the Union right flank met with no more success. Jackson and Ewell's divisions launched further disjointed attacks. As the sun was going down, William Whiting's division was thrown into action. Spearheaded by John Hood's Texas Brigade, they smashed through the Union line, which was getting tired and low on ammunition. Porter ordered a retreat. Reinforcements from the II and VI Corps were sent from south of the Chickahominy to cover the withdrawal.

>Brig. Gen John F. Reynolds was captured in the retreat. He found himself presented to D.H. Hill, an old army colleague of his. The ever-sarcastic Hill remarked "Do not think it all bad, Reynolds, for such is the way of war." Reynolds was held in Libby Prison in Richmond and released a month later in a prisoner exchange. Three Confederate generals were wounded: George Pickett, who would be out of action until the fall, Winfield Featherston, who returned to action in time for the Second Bull Run campaign, and Arnold Elzey, who was badly wounded and forced to retire from field command; for the rest of the war he served an administrative role in the defenses of Richmond and as the Army of Tennessee's chief of artillery during the 1864 campaigns.

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    which proving that Lee was overrated as a general and seldom had battle plans more advanced that just throwing men into the meatgrinder

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      /thread
      Lee’s whole command style was just letting his boys do whatever they want, which is why ol’ Jeb fricked him so hard at Gettysburg lmfao

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Braxton Bragg being a control freak didn't work so good either.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      /thread
      Lee’s whole command style was just letting his boys do whatever they want, which is why ol’ Jeb fricked him so hard at Gettysburg lmfao

      >lose less Men than Grant
      >win Cold Harbor the prequal
      Grantchuds..... Leechads won.... its over!

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Holy cope

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous
      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        confederacy lost at Gaines' Mill

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          basically after first BVLL run it was over.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      of course he did. everyone did. generals of that time were mostly all schooled on Napoleonic tactics.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      /thread
      Lee’s whole command style was just letting his boys do whatever they want, which is why ol’ Jeb fricked him so hard at Gettysburg lmfao

      I swear, no war brings out the arm chair general mutt more than the War of Northern Aggression.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah frick Anderson for putting those giant magnets inside Sumter that drew all of those confederate cannonballs across the harbor and into Sumter’s walls

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >muh 19th century 9/11

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >states rights bro

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >the war of northern aggression
        oh no no no... copebros...

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >yankeebros.... why are they revoking our medals of honor.... I thought I earned this killing women and children in the South/West

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >injun simping on IQfy to “own” the uniongays
            Horseshoe theory at its finest

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Its not horseshoe theory, Confederates have always had kinship with the Red BVLL.
            leftroons only pretend to like mesolithic hyper violent warrior tribals because it makes America look bad.
            But its funnier if we point out Natives and the Confederates were killed by the same people at the same time and all those terrible massacres were done by the same cavalry that would go on their """""""""""liberation"""""""""""" march.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >red “””bull”””
            >ancestors are obese casino owners
            kek

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >turning the country racist again one hamburger at a time
            Tick tock yankuck

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >racist again
            So you admit it’s the dixoids who have always loved Black folk the most? kek

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Re-read what I wrote.
            >dixoids
            why are you counter signaling White people?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            t. Black person lover

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >The South started the War of Northern Aggression
        interesting...

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >outnumber enemy almost 2 times
    >outflank them
    >still suffer higher casualities
    >fail to break them
    >cope the battle as a "tactical victory" afterwards
    dixiebros...

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >send McClellan running with his dick between his asscheeks
      >still suffer heavily in claiming your “victory”
      Rebs blew it the moment they didn’t listen to Sherman’s warning

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >tactical withdrawal to resupply
        >w-we s-sneed them r-running!!!
        damn...

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >tactical withdrawal

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Rebels repeatedly attacked the withdrawing AotP and got bloodied several times in a row failing to destroy or stop it
            CSA lost 20k
            Union lost 16k
            AotP was in a position to attack Richmond again as soon as they got resupplied and reinforced

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            The higher Confederate casualty figure was partially because the AOP was mostly fighting defense battles, but also because the Confederates still had lots of smoothbore muskets while the AOP had largely rifles.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Sounds like they werent able to overcome these disadvantages despite large numerical superiority
            Might point to the southern army being simply inferior...

            Re-read what I wrote.
            >dixoids
            why are you counter signaling White people?

            Frick whitey

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >tactical withdrawal

        >The mongols were actually losers because they constantly retreated

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Casualties at Gaines Mill were close, numbering 7,337 Union killed, wounded, and missing, and 7,993 Confederates.[9] It was the biggest and most intense battle of the Seven Days.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Brig. Gen George W. Taylor's "New Jersey" Brigade (1st through 4th New Jersey regiments) was hotly engaged at Gaines Mill. The colonel of the 2nd New Jersey was killed and the 4th New Jersey completely surrounded and taken prisoner. The soldiers were released on August 1 in a prisoner exchange and returned with the rest of the Army of the Potomac to Washington D.C. However, they were now completely unarmed--the Confederate authorities had helped themselves to their .58 Springfield rifles and there were no replacement ones available in Washington. The regiment was forced to take .69 caliber muskets. The New Jersey Brigade, patroling down by Bull Run Creek on August 27, stumbled into A.P. Hill's entire division and withdrew in disorder. George Taylor was mortally wounded by a Confederate shell and died four days later.

    >The 4th New Jersey rearmed themselves with Enfield rifles dropped by retreating Confederates at South Mountain on September 14.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The ANV really hadn't learned how to work as a unit yet during the Seven Days Battles. Just a clusterfrick of divisions and brigades from different armies/commands with no coordination.

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