 Lee was not exultant , but " deeply , bitterly disappointed " at the result . " Our success has not been as great or complete as we should have desired " , Lee wrote to his wife . In his official report , he wrote , " Under ordinary circumstances , the Federal Army should have been destroyed . " The North Carolinian D. H. Hill shared Lee 's bitterness , and wrote that the " blood of North Carolina poured like water " . In a post @-@ war article he wrote that the battle " was not war ; it was murder . " Lee did not distribute blame for the failure to reach his desired result , but there were repercussions . Several commanders were reassigned , including Theophilus Holmes and John Magruder , and his army was reorganized into two wings , one under Stonewall Jackson and another under James Longstreet . Further , Confederate artillery would now be moved in battalion @-@ sized units , at the head of Confederate columns . 
