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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 135 (search)
s carelessly leaning on the window of the pilot-house, and from his unassuming manner, his genial and frank, though much-abused face, he hardly looked the man who had just assumed command of sixty thousand men, and who abolished slavery by an epigram. Soon after ten o'clock we passed the mouth of the Chickahominy, and although its bosom was unruffled, and the foliage which skirted its banks was soft and green, we did not think of these which we saw with our own eyes, but of Fair Oaks, Malvern Hills, and Seven Pines; of a brilliant army demoralized and retreating, and of forty thousand graves they left behind. At one o'clock we came to Fort Powhatan, a large, strong, and extensive work, on the west bank of the river, and where it makes a bend to the north, so that the fort commands the river for a long distance below. It is on top of a bank, at the elevation of eighty or ninety feet above the river, and seems almost impregnable, although the rebels have been driven from it once