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a shortcoming to which his experience in the African Campaign had not prepared hirn.

The Prince du Joinville, ~~e Count of Paris, and ~he Duk2 of Charcres, sworè in r.and, ~ried, among t~e ?ederal off icers, to eut the Yoaà of t~e r~~-aways. ~he multitude re:used ~o stop. The Battle o: Ccl d Harbor[1] was lest for the ~orth. It had revealed the sort of weakness chat improvised armies are subject to -- prompt in heroism, but sometirnes also in breakdown. Nothing was left but for McClellan to try to avoid a disaster. The following day, the army was in full retreat, but its General was, even then, going to prove his genius and

see his fame grow.


  1. Cold Harbor for the South; Gaine•s Hill for the North.