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The Daily Dispatch: August 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
nts will doubtless be received from Petersburg at an early hour to-day. Below Richmond. Nothing of importance has occurred on the north side of James river, below Richmond, since the reconnaissance on Thursday. The two corps sent over by Grant, it is ascertained, have recrossed to the south side, leaving only the division commanded by Foster, which has been at Deep Bottom for some time past. The firing heard on Friday evening was the enemy's gunboats shelling Howlett's field, a positiquarter. We do not believe either of these stories. It is much more likely that it was a feint to draw General Lee's troops from the front of Petersburg. But whatever it was, it proved a miserable failure, and adds one more to the catalogue of Grant's "brilliant movements" (over the left) in this campaign.* One day last week, the Yankee pickets in the neighborhood of Dutch Gap opened fire upon our picket line, when two of our gunboats, being in the vicinity, concluded to take a hand. C
The Daily Dispatch: August 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
majority of those we saw were slightly wounded. We shall learn further particulars of the casualties and of the battle to-day. We regret to state, however, that General Clingman was painfully, though not seriously, wounded. The battle for the possession of the railroad will probably be resumed this morning, and it is believed the enemy will not only be dislodged, but disastrously defeated. This expedition will turn out, in the end, to be the greatest disaster that has yet happened to Grant in this department. Reports from the battle-field, late last evening, represent our forces between the enemy and the main army in front of Petersburg. If so, something interesting may occur to-day. It is also stated that several hundred more prisoners have been taken, thus running the number above three thousand. As the enemy still hold the railroad, it is impossible to state what damage has been done the track. It is believed, that instead of sending a body of raiders acros