Chronology of Wartime Service

June 30, 1862

After the skirmishers of Gen. Magruder's division probed the Union positions at daylight, finding them empty, Jackson's force, including Lawton's Brigade, marched approximately seven miles, seizing a hospital and a supply depot at Savage Station before reaching the White Oak Bridge at noon. The bridge had been burned by retiring Union forces and the roads obstructed with felled trees. Bridge repair parties came under Union artillery fire. Facing an apparently strong Union defense, Jackson suspended his advance.

Meanwhile, Generals Longstreet and Hill launched a heavy attack on Union positions at Frayser's Farm near Glendale, which covered the flank of the Union retreat. The attacks were repulsed and Jackson's failure to advance on the Long Bridge Road left open the Union line of retreat to Malvern Hill.

Again Jackson is subject to much criticism in hindsight for his failure to press forward to cut the Union line of retreat. Staff officer Henry Kyd Douglas notes: "General Jackson has not escaped criticism, and he does not seem to have been his very self. There were things, it is true, he could not overcome. He was in the saddle continuously and seemed never to let up. Tired out with work he certainly was and so were his troops. But no one who rode with him on the 29th and 30th can recall a moment when he rested." I Road With Stonewall, pp. 111-112.

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