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The Daily Dispatch: August 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Rappahannock lines. (search)
rtillery. At 4 P. M. the enemy developed a heavy of artillery, when a portion of that of Gen. Banks came up, and went into the action, there not being enough in the position occupied by our forces for bringing the whole of it into play. The contending forces at the opening of the battle were apparently about a mile and more apart, the Confederates showing their front upon Slaughter's Mountain, a sugar leaf eminence, situated two miles to the West of the Orange and Alexandria railroad, a Moshell's Station. Our front was on much lower ground, with Cedar Run in our rear, and a small wooded ridge behind that. Gradually, from four to six P. M. the Confederates opened new batteries from the words surrounding the basin or plain lying between of the two contending forces, each of the one being nearer to our position then . Thus they played a cross-fire from both as well as a direct front one, upon our troops, classing the most of General Banks's infantry, their had been put in l