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The Daily Dispatch: October 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ived the following reports of the enemy's assault yesterday upon General Butler's line, their subsequent repulse, and general Birney's brilliant action, driving the enemy to their inner line of entrenchments around Richmond: "Headquarters Dep M. I took the offensive, sending Buney, with two divisions, up the Dbytown road. The enemy retreated as he admeed, and Birney had reached and occupies the enthments which the enemy took from Kutz and were fortifying for themselves. Our loss has send you a batch of prisoners. I am extending my right thank. The enemy seem to be entrenching on the Darby road. D. B. Birney, major General." "Headquarters Department of Virginia, "and North Carolina, "October 7--10:30 P. M. "Lieutenant-General U. S. Grant: "Birney has regained Kauts's old position, and holds the enemy int he inner line of entrenchments around Richmond, extending from the Darbytown road to connect with Weitzel on the left, near Fort Harrison. "There has be