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The Daily Dispatch: June 4, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
. In a battle of this sort, where it is the object of one party to defend breastworks, and of the other to capture them, many prisoners are not usually taken. We saw about a thousand, however, pass down the street yesterday. The most marvelous thing about this battle is the small loss of our army. At 12 o'clock, we learn from undoubted authority, Longstreet's corps had not lost a hundred men in killed and wounded. A few hundreds will cover the whole loss. Since New Orleans, when Gen. Jackson said, "scarce a sprig of cypress was mingled with the wreathe of laurel," there has been nothing like this. When the Yankees occupied those same lines from which we have just repulsed them with such terrible slaughter, we drove them from them. At that time they were much stronger than they are now. This fact alone would be sufficient to show which are the best troops.--Devoutly thankful should the whole Confederate States be to that Providence which has watched over us in this great cri