CHAPTER XVII

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Pictures at the Seat of War--Looking for John Crawford the Zouave--Hopeful and Discouraged Letters Home--Events which had preceded Malvern Hill--An Army winning Victories in Retreat--The Morning after White-Oak Swamp--How the Sun shines on Fields of Carnage--Appearance of the Retreating Army--The Camp of Fitz-John Porter's Division--The Soldiers of Home, and the Soldiers of the Field--The First Rebel Attack at the Cross Roads--Why the Potomac Army was not demoralized--The Repulse, and the Pause before the Heavier Storm 239

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