BATTLE OF SEVEN PINES,
On the 31st of May, in which the Federal loss was 6,000 greater than
the Confederate, with arms, stores, etc. A demonstration by McClellan
on the next day which was repulsed by General Pickett, magnified
in the Federal reports as the battle of Fair Oaks, was an action of no
consequence. Our limits forbid a minute detail of the events of the
momentous three years succeeding, and confine us to a general view of
the war in Virginia. On the first of June the armies confronting each
other on her soil aggregated quite 200,000 men. The struggle around
the beleaguered capital of the Confederacy commenced with the
