US APPENDIX. the federal land forces converted the rejoicings of the Virginians into doubts and disappointments. Lor some time it a as supposed McClellan would resume his attack on the line of the Charles City road ; then, that lie would shift his -whole force to the south side and throw himself irresistibly from City Point upon POLrsburg. The results of the terrible six days’ tiglitiug were not regarded as at all decisive, and General Lee, while honored for his success in relieving the immediate pressure upon the city, and in “chastising the Yankees” tremendously, was loudly charged with having been outwitted by an adversary whose escape he ought to have rendered impossible. The final movement which transferred the whole federal army from Harrison's Landing to the Potomac, and which was going on when I left Richmond was hardly credited at that time in that city. It was certainly felt that if real, it would be a substantial relief from all formidable operations against tlie place, at least for the next year. As to the confederate forces engagedin these sanguinary battles before Richmond, it is my impression that the armies united under Lee before the arrival of Jackson from the Shenandoah, numbered 90.0D0 men ; and the Prince's estimate of Jackson’s force at 30,000, 1 take to be not far from the truth. 'The prisoners taken from our army, including the wounded, whom we were forced to abandon, were estimated at between 7 and s/iOo, of whom only about 4,500, however, were actually known to have been sent on to Richmond. On their own side, the most candid and best-informed confederates admitted a total loss in killed, wounded, and missing of about 10,000 men. 3^77-5
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