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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.51 (search)
olonel, severely wounded in the breast. When we had charged across the enemy's camp the dismounted men were reinforced by the remainder of the 1st North Carolina as a precaution against the enemy's return to the attack when they had time to form. But so thoroughly convinced were they of a large force on our part, that this apprehended attack was not made by them. This we gathered from the country people, who told us next day as we followed their line of retreat to the Old Church in New Kent county, that the enemy said they had been attacked the night before by 3,000 cavalry. The result of this affair, as to carnage and capture, was a loss to the enemy of twenty killed and wounded, 100 horses, 300 stand of arms, about the same number of saddles, and a great many blankets. The loss on our side during the charge was Captain Goodman, just mentioned, and Private E. Lipe, Company E, 1st North Carolina Cavalry, the latter shot through the lungs and disabled for the remainder of the wa