...t, and lost to the Confederates, and at dawn next morning, from Appomattox to Hatcher's Run, the Federal assaults began. Lee was forced back from the whole line covering the Boydton Plank Road, and Gibbon 's division of Ord's corps boldly essayed to break through into the town. The way was barred by an open work of heavy profile, known as Battery Gregg, garrisoned by a mixed force