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The Daily Dispatch: November 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], The fight at Petersburg. (search)
The fight at Petersburg. [from our Own Correspondent.] Petersburg, Va., October 28, 1864. The battle of Burgess'smill, which was fought yesterday, deserves to be chronicled in detail as an engagement reflecting great credit on the Confederate arms, and as showing the signal failure of the enemy in their flank movements towards the Southside railroad. As early as Wednesday night it was known to our authorities that the enemy were in motion, but for what point was uncertain. Early Thursday morning all doubts were removed, when it was ascertained that the enemy had moved, by a long denture, from Poplar Spring Church--their then farthest advanced position on the right — to the Quaker road, and thence down this road to the Beydton plankroad, driving in our cavalry and occupying their captured camps. They did not halt, but pressed on until they reached the south bank of the Rowenty stream, on the heights of which they halted and fortified, their progress being too hotly contested