THE GREAT VICTORY: Full Details of the Second Day’s Fight; The Rebels Driven Back at Every Point with Great Slaughter (6/4/1862)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 6/4/1862

[Homer_J_Simpson]

BATTLE-FIELD, Monday, June 2, 1862.

The rebel army still occupied the camps of CAGEY'S and COUCH's Divisions on Sunday morning, with a strong picket force guarding the road facing SNEAD'S house and the wheat field where our earthworks were thrown up, extending from our extreme left to the railroad, near Fair Oak Station. The distance from the point where our earthworks were located to the edge of the wood could not have been more than four hundred yards. This position the rebels held until day dawned on Sunday morning.

To our right, on the other side of the railroad, the divisions of Gens. RICHARDSON and SEDGWICK were found, in a semi-circle, with their left resting on Gen. HOOKER's right, at the railroad, and their left flanking the enemy. These divisions were composed of parts of the brigades of Gen. BURNS, Gen. FRENCH, Gen. T. F. MEAGHER, with four batteries of artillery.

Gen. HOOKER's Division were camped in the wood fronting SNEAD's house, on the Williamsburgh road, occupying the centre, and a little in advance of our right and left wings. On our left the remaining portions of COUCH's and CASEY's Divisions rested, with reserves of fresh troops extending to our extreme left, near the middle road, under Gen. KEYES.

Gen. HEINTZELMAN was on the ground at the front as soon as day dawned, accompanied by two Aids. Gen. HOOKER met him, and the two Generals sat down at the foot of a tree behind our breastworks, arranging a plan for the day's proceedings.

Gens. JAMESON, KEYES and SICKLES arrived at the front soon after, and the fight of Saturday was talked over as one of no particular advantage to the enemy, as they had concentrated their main force upon this portion of our front lines,

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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The Great Victory: Full Details of the Second Day’s Fight – 2-4
Civil Rule in North Carolina: The Colored Schools Broken Up – 4
Department of the Shenandoah: Highly Important Movements Against the Enemy – 5
The Battle of Hanover: Details of the Engagement – 5-7
News from Washington: Reception of the Details of the Great Battle – 7-9
A Grand Match at Base Ball: Philadelphia against New-York* – 9
Barnum’s Baby Show: Second Day of the Baby Show – 9
Editorial: The Battle of the Chickahominy – Closing Around Richmond – 9
Editorial: The Second Flight of Stonewall Jackson – 9-10
Very Shallow and Very Shabby – 10
A Mystery – 10
Amusements – 10
From San Francisco – 10

*This article makes it clear that baseball has been continuing right along, but this is the first story I have seen in the NY Times (and I’ve been looking) since the war began - HJS.

[Timmy]

But the other shoe is about to drop . . .

[Conan the Librarian]

Not yet. The Great Pause comes first.

McClellen got the ‘slows’.

Interesting how wrong the NYT got it, but, they were just going by the reports from the army.

[BrexitBen]

What hath “ honest “ Abe wrought ?

The foreign crusades, the Pentagon, and Vladimir Putin.