From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America
CHAPTER V.
ROUND ABOUT RICHMOND.
The Defences of the Confederate Capital--Army of Northern Virginia at Centreville--Aggressive Action--Council with the President and Secretary of War--Mr. Davis's High Opinion of McClellan--Operations on the Peninsula--Engagements about Yorktown and Williamsburg--Severe Toil added to the Soldiers' Usual Labors by a Saturated Soil 64