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The Daily Dispatch: October 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], Forrest Victories. (search)
ected by the enemy, of superior strength, it being behind a pile of cord wood, over a hundred yards, where the railroad ran through a "cut" of ten feet in depth. Rucker's brigade proceeded to close in on the enemy, keeping up a vigorous fire until within eighty yards of them, in an open space; the Fifteenth Tennessee regiment, Coht prisoners, and killing several. The Yankees ran into the woods adjacent and kept up a fire upon us — they still endeavoring to get a stockade near town. Rucker's brigade kept them moving all the time until they reached the block-house, where they took refuge. General Buford's division was still in readiness to charge th and fort, garrisoned with a regiment of negroes and some cavalry. At 6 A. M., the ball was opened by our batteries playing the very dence with the Yankee fort. Rucker's brigade soon drove in the skirmishers, and the fight commenced in earnest, when it was continued until 10 o'clock. The Yankees kept a perfect rain of Minnie bu