Qualla: Battle of Malvern Hill https://qualla.com/battle-of-malvern-hill en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:07 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/9/h/battle-of-malvern-hill-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Malvern Hill https://qualla.com/battle-of-malvern-hill Battle of Malvern Hill: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-malvern-hill/ Photo credit Muhranoff, CC BY-SA 4.0. 'It was not war,' Confederate General D.H. Hill wrote after the war. 'It was murder.' He was talking about July 1, 1862, the day his soldiers walked uphill toward 250 Union cannons firing at point-blank range. Five and a half thousand Confederates fell at Malvern Hill — most cut down by artillery before they got within musket range of the Union line. The dead boy in the famous photograph, the haunted-eyed seventeen-year-old Edwin Francis Jemison of the 2nd Louisiana, was killed here. Robert E. Lee won the campaign that day, in the sense that he saved Richmond. But what happened at Malvern Hill was something else entirely.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/9/h/battle-of-malvern-hill-wp/dq9h-battle-of-malvern-hill-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Malvern Hill: Seven Days, and Then One More https://qualla.com/battle-of-malvern-hill/ Photo credit Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain. Union Major General George B. McClellan had spent the spring inching the Army of the Potomac up the Virginia Peninsula toward Richmond. By late June, his 100,000 men were within sight of the Confederate capital's church steeples. Then Lee struck. Six days of relentless attacks — ...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/9/h/battle-of-malvern-hill-wp/dq9h-battle-of-malvern-hill-seven-days-and-then-one-more.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Malvern Hill: What the Artillery Did https://qualla.com/battle-of-malvern-hill/ Photo credit Allen Christian Redwood (1844–1922) illustrator, Robert Underwood Johnson (1853–1937) and Clarence Clough Buel (1850–1933) book editors., Public domain. More than 250 Union cannons crowned Malvern Hill. They could fire across the entire approach. Behind them, on the James, gunboats added thirteen-inch shells from the river — explosions so large they sounded like locomotives passing overhead. Lee, looking for one more victory to c...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/9/h/battle-of-malvern-hill-wp/dq9h-battle-of-malvern-hill-what-the-artillery-did.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Malvern Hill: The Cost https://qualla.com/battle-of-malvern-hill/ Photo credit Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Clough Buel (book authors). A list of artists and engravers can be found on p. 23 of the PDF., Public domain. Confederate casualties totaled 5,650 — killed, wounded, captured. Union losses came to about 3,000. The Confederate dead lay in windrows on the slope, more than half killed by artillery. Among them was Edwin Jemison, a seventeen-year-old private from Louisiana whose pre-war portr...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/9/h/battle-of-malvern-hill-wp/dq9h-battle-of-malvern-hill-the-cost.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Malvern Hill: What Lee Said, What Hill Said https://qualla.com/battle-of-malvern-hill/ Photo credit Djmaschek, CC BY 4.0. Lee called it 'deeply, bitterly disappointed.' In his official report he wrote: 'Under ordinary circumstances, the Federal Army should have been destroyed.' D.H. Hill, who lost so many North Carolinians, was less reserved. 'The blood of North Carolina poured like water,' he wrote...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/9/h/battle-of-malvern-hill-wp/dq9h-battle-of-malvern-hill-what-lee-said-what-hill-said.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Malvern Hill: The Best-Preserved Field https://qualla.com/battle-of-malvern-hill/ Photo credit Muhranoff, CC BY-SA 4.0. The National Park Service calls Malvern Hill 'the best preserved Civil War battlefield in central or southern Virginia.' The American Battlefield Trust and partners have preserved 1,441 acres since 1994. The Willis Church Parsonage ruins, where Confederate assaults began, are sti...

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