Produced by Ernest Schaal and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) [Illustration] Notes of a Staff Officer of our First New Jersey Brigade on the Seven Day's Battle on the Peninsula in 1862 by E. Burd Grubb Brevet Brigadier General U. S. Volunteers MOORESTOWN, N. J. MOORESTOWN PRINTING CO. 1910. The Seven Day's Battle on the Peninsula as Seen by a Lieutenant on the Staff Camille Baquet, Esq., Historian of First New Jersey Brigade, Elizabeth, N. J. DEAR SIR: In accordance with your request I give you herewith my recollections of the Battle of Gaines' Mills. In order to give a minute description of this battle, it may be well to describe where the New Jersey Brigade started from to go into it, and how it came to be where it did start from. The Brigade had been at the village of Mechanicsville about three and a half miles from Richmond on the northern side of the Chickahominy during the latter part of the month of May. It was moved up from Mechanicsville about a mile and a half west up the Chickahominy near the Meadow Bridge, but was not on picket at that bridge when Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry attacked the picket of the United States Cavalry commanded by Captain Royal and killed a number of his men and desperately wounded that officer. Captain Royal was well known in Burlington, New Jersey, he having married a sister of Admiral John Howell of that city. The brigade was withdrawn soon after that and moved down the Chickahominy taking the road on top of the northern ridge and stopping near Dr. Gaines' house. On the 31st of May the brigade was under orders to move at a moment's notice and the Battle of Fair Oaks was in progress on the southern side of the river. Part of it could be seen and a good deal of it heard.