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The Daily Dispatch: November 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], The fight at Petersburg. (search)
he night they captured and drove in our lines on the Jerusalem plankroad, but about midnight this picket line was reestablished, and so matters are now in status quo October, 29, 1864. To-day, details from our side have been busy burying the Yankee dead and attending their wounded. The country will learn, with regret, that General Hampton lost in this fight one son killed and one wounded, but the General attends to me duties with unflinching fidelity. X. Petersburg, Va., October 31--1 P. M. Last night, about ten o'clock, Major-General Mahone, having made the necessary preparations, determined to surprise the picket line in his front and capture it. Accordingly, he started forward two regiments to accomplish this work, one to the right and one to the left of the picket line, capturing the vidette posts, and, sweeping down the lines, brought in every mother's son of them some two hundred and fifty in all. After accomplishing this they retired. Somewhat later, the