Excerpt from The Seven Days' Battles in Front of Richmond: An Outline Narrative of the Series of Engagement Which Opened at Mechanicsville, Near Richmond, on Thursday, June 26, 1862, and Resulted in the Defeat and Retreat of the Northern Army Under Major-General M'clellan, Compiled From the Detailed Accounts of T

After the most bloody and important struggle that has ever taken place upon the Continent of America, the people of the Confederate States, whose sons and kindred were the victors, have marked, with some surprise and disappointment, that no full and accurate account of the battles has been published in the South. The lack of so desirable a record is due to the exclusion from the lines of our armies of those whose province it has hitherto been to chronicle the events of the war. Yet many detached and interesting narratives of the several engagements have, from time to time, found their way into the Southern newspapers. To group together these fragmentary accounts, so as to present, as nearly as possible, under the circumstances, a complete and connected narrative of the successive actions, is the object of this pamphlet. It has been suggested to the publishers, that, in the absence of a more detailed and pretentious history of the fighting, such a compilation would be acceptable to the public.

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