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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 6.34 (search)
hough at times the Thor-hammer beat down the guard of the slender rapier, which so often pierced the joints of the giant armor. By the end of August, Grant was firmly established across the Weldon road — a line of communication important, indeed, to Lee, but not absolutely necessary. Yet was it not yielded without much desperate fighting, as was witnessed by the sharp affair of August 18th, favorable to the Confederates, who were commanded by Gen. Harry Heth; by the brilliant action of Aug. 19th, in which the troops were immediately commanded by Heth and Mahone (the brunt of the fighting falling on Heth's division and Pegram's artillery), and in which the enemy sustained a loss of many standards and above 2,700 prisoners; by the battle of August 21st, in which Mahone failed to dislodge the enemy, for, attacking with six small brigades, and twelve guns under Pegram, he encountered, instead of the weak flank his scouts had led him to expect, a heavily-entrenched front manned by an a