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The Daily Dispatch: August 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway negro. (search)
We were held here as more spectators, awaiting further orders, and exposed, in the meanwhile, to a continual shower of the enemy's bullets. When the command was given to advance, the whole regiment went in double-quick time, cheering and firing as they ran; meanwhile the flags of the Southern Confederacy were seen right and left, advancing over every hid. The enemy's battery had been taken, and it became the province of our regiment to hold it. We met with, but little resistance. The Charlotte Rifles, with the aid of Adjutant Hill, of North Carolina, had the honor of turning the famous Shermean's battery around, and firing in upon the owners. When the Northern vandals perceived that the invincible columns of the Southern Confederacy were coming against them in an irresistible tide, and that their own guns were turned against them, they set their faces towards the land of their birth, resolving, as no doubt many of them aid, never to set foot again upon Virginia soil Ii*****.