MALVERN HILL, BATTLE or. A battle fought on July 1, 1862, at Malvern Hill, Va., near the north bank of the :fames River, about 15 miles southeast of Richmond, between the Fed eral Army of the Potomac. numbering about 80, 000 men, under General McClellan. and the Con federate Army of Northern Virginia, alsonumber ing about 80,000, under General Lee. It was the last of the 'Seven Days Battles' (q.v.) in the Peninsular campaign. After the engagements at White Oak Bridge and Glendale on June 30th, the whole of the Federal army was stationed on Alalvern 1B11, an eminence about sixty feet in height, by nature a position of great strength. General Fitz John Porter was in immediate com mand. General McClellan having absented him self to confer with Commodore Rodgers on the gunboat Galena. Late in the afternoon of the 1st, the Confederates, under the imme diate command of Generals D. II. Hill, Huger, and Magruder. advanced against the position, though there had been an almost con tinual artillery fire throughout the morning: and the fighting continued with slight intermission until nine o'clock in the evening, when the Con federates, having sustained heavy losses. finally
withdrew without making any impression on the Federal Ems. The Federal artillery, which preyed exceedingly elfectiNe throughout the bat tle. and V, posted that the fire of sixty guns could be concentrated nn any point, was under the p.m ral direetion of Colonel Bunt. During the attic also a tire front the gunboats in the nit of the Federals did some execution in the onfederate ranks. The exact losses of the two armies at. Malvern llill were never accurately de termined, but it is estimated that the Con federates lost more than 5000 in killed and wounded and the Federals about one-third of that number. Consult : Johnson and Buel (eds.), Rattles and Leaders of the Ciril War, vol. ii.(New \urk, IsS7); General McClellan (New York. 1901), in the "Great Commanders Series:** and Webb. The Peninsula (New York, MO, in the "Campaigns of the Civil War Series.".