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The Daily Dispatch: August 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Rappahannock lines. (search)
he war. These charges developed the fact that the enemy actually engaged greatly outnumbered our forces (about seven thousand) in action. Being thus informed of the location of the main body of the Confederate infantry, our artillery played sad havoc with them, driving decimated regiment after regiment back into the shelter of the dense forest, to have their places instantly occupied by fresh regiments, to be decimated in the same way. Among others, this fire killed the Confederate Generals Winder and Trimble. The arm of the former was torn off by a shell, and he died very shortly afterwards from the flow of blood, and Trimble was knocked dead from his horse by the explosion of a shell. Having put the forces of McDowell and Siegel in rapid motion for the field of action, Gen. Pope, with his staff, accompanied by Gen. McDowell and his staff, immediately proceeded together from their headquarters to the front. As they passed Ricketts's division, and the head of Siegel's army