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The Daily Dispatch: July 11, 1863., [Electronic resource], Official report of the attack on Milliken's Bend. (search)
ce at Milliken's Bend, on the bank of the Mississippi river, under the protection of his gunboats. His pickets, skirmishers, and outposts were steadily driven from ditch to ditch, and hedge to hedge, until he fell behind his breast works, at which he made a stubborn and desperate stand, but which were carried by our troops with an impetuous charge not excelled since the war commenced. In this charge the regiments of Colonel Wasterhouse, Allan, and Fitzhugh, were the participants, until Col. Flournoy's regiment arrived and assisted in driving the enemy from his barricade, an angle in his works on our left, Col. Waterhouse, with his regiment, gallantly charging over the loves and entirely through the enemy's camp to the water's edge. Too much credit cannot be awarded to our officers and men for the courage and gallantry displayed on this battlefield. Our loss of 181 in killed, wounded, and missing, shows but too plainly how firm was the resistance of the foe, while the hundreds whic