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The Daily Dispatch: May 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], From General Lee's army. (search)
turnpike and plank roads on towards the Catharpin road, by which our whole line passed on towards Spotsylvania Court House. Early in the morning of this day (Sunday) Fliz Lee, with his cavalry division, had engaged them, and was fighting them with unsurpassed bravery and desperate earnestness, and was being forced back by much superior numbers of the enemy's infantry. As they were retiring upon Spotsylvania Court House, and whilst engaging in desperate fight with the 5th Yankee corps, Wofford's and Bryan's brigades, of McLaws's division having opportunely arrived, engaged the enemy in front of Spotsylvania Court House, and Kershaw's South Carolina brigade and Humphreys's Mississippi brigade came in upon the flank of their column. A severe fight ensued, lasting two hours. The result was that the enemy were driven completely back, with immense slaughter, whilst our loss was comparatively slight. Again later in the day McLaws's division having thrown up a line of breastworks, the
The Daily Dispatch: May 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], The battle of the Wilderness. (search)
left wing was not required to take any further part in the heavy fighting of the day, the enemy's almost exclusive attention being given to our right. About 11 o'clock Longstreet was ordered to move upon the enemy's left flank, and if possible dislodge him from the railroad cut and the plank road, and drive him back upon Brock's road. The brigades selected for this movement were G. T. Anderson's and leaking's of Fields's division; Mahone's and Davis's of R. F. Anderson's division, and Wofford's and perhaps two others of Kershaw's division.--Anderson's division, but lately arrived, having been left at Orange Court House to guard against any demonstration upon our rear. The flank movement was completely successful the enemy was taken by surprise and driven back from the railroad cut across the plank road with heavy loss, a portion of his troops retreating rapidly down the plank road to Brock's road. Mahone's Virginia brigade, of Anderson's division, ran over the 4th United State