I muri i te whakaekenga o te whakawehi ki a Richmond i te wehenga atu o te ope a McClellan i te Peninsula, ko te Tumuaki o te Rōpū, ko Robert E. Lee, i whakakapi i a Joseph Johnston i muri i te whara o te whakamutunga i te Seven Pines
, i whakariterite i tana ope o Northern Virginia ki roto i nga "parirau" e rua, i raro i te whakahau a Major General Longstreet (Right Wing) me Major General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson (Whaka ki Maui). I whakanohoia a Hunton's Brigade ki te Tumuaki o Longstreet i roto i te wehenga i whakahaua e Brigadier General James Kemper.