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The Daily Dispatch: August 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
oise, and the fragments of earth were at once flying in every direction, making a rent in the lines of some thirty or forty yards, just at one of these, to us, fatd sattents. This sudden explosion scattered the guns (four pieces of Pegram's battery, Branch's battalion, of this city,) in every direction, and tore lifeless and limbless some of its gunners, and buried others in the earth, along with many of us supports, the poor fellows of Evans's S. C. brigade, commanded by temporary Brigadier-General Elliott, who, I regret to say, received a wound in the melee which is reported to be a mortal one. No sooner had the explosion occurred and the fragments reached the earth than Burnsides minions--"black spirits and gray"--bounded forward with a hellish yell, pressing back our astonished; and, for a while, discomfited troops, gaining, possession of the salient, the four guns, and a number of prisoners. The enemy now held some two hundred yards of our lines, and could be distinctly see
The Daily Dispatch: August 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
oise, and the fragments of earth were at once flying in every direction, making a rent in the lines of some thirty or forty yards, just at one of these, to us, fatd sattents. This sudden explosion scattered the guns (four pieces of Pegram's battery, Branch's battalion, of this city,) in every direction, and tore lifeless and limbless some of its gunners, and buried others in the earth, along with many of us supports, the poor fellows of Evans's S. C. brigade, commanded by temporary Brigadier-General Elliott, who, I regret to say, received a wound in the melee which is reported to be a mortal one. No sooner had the explosion occurred and the fragments reached the earth than Burnsides minions--"black spirits and gray"--bounded forward with a hellish yell, pressing back our astonished; and, for a while, discomfited troops, gaining, possession of the salient, the four guns, and a number of prisoners. The enemy now held some two hundred yards of our lines, and could be distinctly see
The Daily Dispatch: August 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
--The enemy sprung a mine under our works on the Baxter Road, one and a half miles from the city, this morning about 5 o'clock, blowing up a considerable portion of our works, which were occupied by Pegram's battery, of this city, supported by Elliott's South Carolina brigade. A number of lives w The enemy at once bounded forward driving in our forces and occupying a large portion of our lines. Mahone being notified of the condition of affairs, harried his own and Wright's brigades to icers as the severest of the war for the numbers engaged. The battle-field is literally strewn with dead negroes. The firing ceased at 9 o'clock, but it is understood we will renew the attack at 2 o'clock. Among the casualties are General Elliott, of South Carolina, severely wounded; Colonel Weisiger, commanding Mahone's brigade, slightly; Major Woodhouse, slightly; the gallant Captain Girardy, Mahone's Assistant Adjutant General, slightly. During the fight the enemy's grape and