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[|Melvern Hill]
[|Americancivilwar] [|Military history online]

**Malvern hill**
bl2 shawn pettis kyle black __**1 **.__ The name of the battle was called Malvern Hill. 2. The Date(s)that the battle happened was on July 1, 1862 __**3**__. The Location of the battle was in the Henrico County, which is in Virginia. 4. The Principal Commanders: Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan [US]; Gen. Robert E. Lee [CS] was the commanders/major. __**5**.__General Robert E. Lee was sending in nineteen brigades, about 30,000 men accompanied by artillery and went right into the teeth of the enemy. 6.A brief summary of the battle is On July 1, 1862,confederate general Robert E. Lee launched a series of aimless and discontinuous assaults on the nearly indestructible Union position on Malvern Hill. The Confederates suffered more than 5,300 casualties without gaining an inch of ground. The Battles of Glendale on June 30, 1862, and Malvern Hill, July 1, 1862, were the final two actions of the famous Seven Days' Campaign.That has had happened all week, Lee's plans went away. Only Hill and Longstreet's division were sent into the fray, and although temporarily successful around the Glendale crossroads, Federal reinforcements from White Oak Swamp proved decisive in repulsing Confederate attacks. The fighting ended at dark, with casualties numbering some 3,700 Confederates and nearly 3,800 Federals. During the night McClellan withdrew his forces to Malvern Hill. Disappointed that the Union army had escaped, Lee decided to hit McClellan one more time, on July 1, 1862. In a series of uncoordinated assaults, typical of the Confederate efforts that entire week, John B. Magruder's, D.H. Hill's and Huger's divisions vainly attacked the massed Federal artillery and infantry positions on Malvern Hill. By the end of the day some 5,700 Confederate soldiers lay dead and wounded on the slopes, and General D.H. Hill was moved to say that, "It was not war, it was murder." Federal casualties numbered about 3,000 men

 __**7**__.As swiftly as batteries would be riding up from the rear, Brigadier General Griffin would ride out ahead of them personally placing them while being shot at in all directions around him. It was a bad place for an officer to be riding about, so much so that the federal infantry was taking bets on Black Jack's life in that he was either to be wounded or killed. 8.The Result was that the Union had victory over the confederation. __**9**.__The Estimated Casualties has a total of 8,500 men. 10.the battle of Malvern Hill ended the seven days war.