Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Bayan an yi watsi da barazanar Richmond tare da janyewar sojojin McClellan daga yankin, Janar Janar Robert E. Lee, wanda tun daga lokacin ya maye gurbin Joseph Johnston bayan raunin da aka yi a Seven Pines
, ya sake tsara rundunarsa ta Arewacin Virginia zuwa "reshe" ko "umarni", a karkashin jagorancin Manjo Janar Longstreet (Right Wing) da Manjo Janar Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson (Hagu na Hagu). An sanya Brigade na Hunton a cikin umurnin Longstreet a cikin sashen da Brigadier Janar James Kemper ya umurta.