![]() ![]() I look at this seemingly impenetrable swamp, and I wonder : how could soldiers fight here? It’s clear, when reading about this fight, the difficulties of fighting in terrain like this. Prisoners were captured in the dense smoke of battle as they became lost and bewildered and separated from their broken and defeated battalions.”īeaver Dam Creek is a swampy nightmare of a battlefield. Confederate regimental colors were snatched and taken from their bearers in hand-to-hand encounters. Guns were captured and retaken by desperate charges and counter- charges. The fighting here, after two disastrous repulses, was close and deadly with Confederate troops finally pushing back the Union Army as it continued its retreat down the Virginia Peninsula.Īs 9th Massachusetts veteran Daniel George MacNamara described it, “ men fell dead and wounded on both sides like grain before the reaper’s sickle. Boatswain Creek, Gaines’s Mill BattlefieldĪnd again, at the Battlefields of Gaines’s Mill, the tree line that held the attacking Confederate forces is a mere 60 yards from the Union artillery positions on the Gaines’s Mill Farm.
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