CHAPTER XI.

BATTLE OF MALVERN HILL.

Last Stand in the Great Retreat--Strength of McClellan's Position--The Confederates make Poor Use of their Artillery--A Mistake and Defeat for Lee's Army--The Campaign as a Whole a Great Success, but it should have been far greater--McClellan's Retreat showed him well equipped in the Science of War--Review of the Campaign--Jackson's and Magruder's Misunderstanding-- Moral Effect of the Gunboats on the James River--"There should be a Gunboat in Every Family" 141