Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-06-18
he seven Pircs.

From the EIeLmoud Examiner, Ia.h.I
Fifty years ago the tongue Of land included
between the WIisnib1rg stage road and the
Stony Run or Nine Mile road, at their junction.
seven miles cast by southeast Of Il chnI5ud. and
two mites south Of the Chickahonmy river, was
occupied by IN old gentleman named Lord. aud
was IN those days, and had been, perhaps, for a
century previous, known as the S. ven Pines.
Stage drivers and passengers, aud all the coun-
try people ,heIeabout. knew il By no other rame;
gEd, rs the Seven Pines, tie fam and its ap-
pur.ences. was rcpfa-cdly bought and sold
There was never anything remarkable about the
place, except tiat it was the point Of junction Of
the two reads bsfJTe mentioned. When the
stage coaches from Williamsburg approached
the place, the question Us hOw much shorter the
stage read was than tie Sony Kun read is said
eVerlastiEgiy 10 have been raised and dis
cussed-a paint which has never been definitely
settled to this day, tie better opinion seeming
TO US to be that to the center OF Ricbmcnd the
Seven Pins IS oqui-listant by either road.
though TO tic corporate limits it is clearly more
than q mile nearer By tie Williamsburg stage
road.
Afer old Nj. Lords death his chillren and
grandchildren scattered about the neichborhooJ.
and the homestead was deserted and allowed to
grow up in old field pines. In this condition it re-
manned tor many years, when it was purchased
and partially cleared up by a man named
Eacho, who, we believe, still owned it and
hvod upon it at the time Of the recent saneui-
nary battles in tie neighborhood. Whether
this hitherto obscure place shall give the name
to the two days's conle of the 3lst eff May and
the lst Of June, is now a question undergoing
dlSeussO in the public p iuts. With this cues
ti'nwe do not propose meldling. but merely
designed some facts as 10 the locality which
happ.ne e TO be within cur knowledge.
We have cOayerSed with numbers of mon
who were engaged in ;he battle Of the 3Ist. but
all tf them being strangers in the ne;ghborhood.
AID unacqUainted with the localities, we have
found it extremely difficult to asc- r. ala where
the ba tie began, and by what route the enemy
retreated.
Frcm what we have colla'ed from many
sources, we have settled down into the opinion
that The skirmiShing began in the morning
some t@o miles this side, or west, of the Seven
PintS; that tho enemy, rs The Day advanced and
our troops pressed upon them, fen back to With
IN a half mile Of The seven Pines, where. On the
sou h SIDE OF the Williamsburg stage road, in =
ti-ld owned by 8 man nAntd D1bbins, tn
greatest and bloodicst struggle occurred. From
this field toward tie evening tie enemy were
driven out, aud ret-oaigd down The read to Ssven
Pines, 1T which point the enemy crossed the
road aud bore 10 the east with the DESIGN tf
keeping within striking distance Of the York
River railroad, which err ssrs the Stony Run
road a ME on This side t1cst) Of the junction
Of the latter with The Williamsburg. Alter this
retreat OF the enemy we hear OF no more severe
6ghiiug thai dag. Ga the next cay tho battle
renew d, and ragged for q time with great
fury al09g the track of the railroad, and later in
the day on the Sscny Ran road, q mile nearer
this city-that is two miles on this side Of The
Seven Pines.
From this siAiem nt, which we believe to be
e treet, il will b5 observed that much Of the
Sighting was d1re in The immediate neigbbor-
hood Of the Seven Pines, a milo and q half or
two niles As The crow flies from Chickahominy
river.