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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2, Chapter 27: (search)
the rebels had extended four miles. Shall I make a trial, he asked, on this outstretched line? But the general-in-chief replied from City Point: Your despatch of 3.30 is only just received—too late to direct an attack. Hold on where you are for the present. Believing that the operations of the day were over, Grant now telegraphed to the Secretary of War: I have just returned from the crossing of the Boydton plank road with Hatcher's creek. Our line now extends from its former left to Armstrong's mill, thence by the south bank of Hatcher's creek to the point above named. No attack was made during the day further than to drive pickets and the cavalry inside the main works. Our casualties have been light, probably less than two hundred, killed, wounded, and missing. The same is probably true with the enemy. .. On our right General Butler extended well around towards the Yorktown road, without finding a point unguarded. I shall keep our troops out where they are until towards n