White Oak Swamp

Excerpts of report from Major-General D. H. Hill, command of his Division

    Jackson's command, my division leading, passed Savage Station early in the morning of the 30th instant, and followed the line of the Yankee retreat toward White Oak Creek.  We picked up about 1,000 prisoners and so many arms, that I detached the Fourth and Fifth North Carolina Regiments to take charge of both.
    At White Oak Creek we found the bridge destroyed and the Yankee forces drawn up on the other side.  Twenty-six guns from my division and five from Whitings division opened a sudden and unexpected fire upon the Yankee batteries and infantry.  A feeble response was attempted, but silenced in a few minutes.  Munford's cavalry and my skirmishers crossed over, but the Yankees got some guns under cover of a wood which commanded the bridge, and the cavalry was compelled to turn back.  The skirmishers staid over all day and night.  We attempted no further crossing that day.  The hospitals and a large number of sick and wounded at White Oak Creek fell into our hands.  Major-Generals Longstreet and A. P. Hill attacked the Yankees in flank at Frazier's Farm (Glendale), some 2 miles distant in advance of us that day, and a corresponding vigorous attack by Major-General Huger on their rear must have resulted most disastrously to them.  The obstacles he met, which prevented his advance, may have been of a character not to be overcome.  I do not know and cannot judge of them.  The bridge being repaired, Jackson's command crossed over, Brigadier-General Whiting's division leading, and effected a junction with General Lee near a church a few miles from Malvern Hill.  Whiting's Division was turned off the road to the left at the foot of this hill and mine to the right.  We had to advance across an open field and ford a creek before getting under cover of the woods.  We were in full view while effecting these objects, and suffered heavily from the Yankee artillery.