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| Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3 | 309 | 19 | Browse | Search |
| Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2 | 309 | 19 | Browse | Search |
| General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant | 170 | 20 | Browse | Search |
| J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary | 117 | 33 | Browse | Search |
| Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) | 65 | 11 | Browse | Search |
| Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative | 62 | 2 | Browse | Search |
| Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) | 36 | 2 | Browse | Search |
| William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . | 34 | 12 | Browse | Search |
| Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee | 29 | 3 | Browse | Search |
| Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 29 | 3 | Browse | Search |
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The Baltimore Gazette, of the 30th ult., was received last night.
The Agent of the Press Association has furnished the following summary:
The affair near Deep Bottom.
We have previously mentioned the fact that the Confederates were making an attempt to occupy Malvern Hill and Harrison's Landing for the purpose of rendering Butler's position at Bermuda Hundred insecure, if not untenable.
We now learn that, on Wednesday, General Grant threw two pontoon bridges across the James river, and sent the Second corps to the northern side of that stream for the purpose of counteracting the designs of the enemy.
The Federal troops made good their landing, but were immediately attacked before they had time to organize.
They succeeded, however, in driving back the opposing force, which consisted only of skirmishers, and in capturing some fifty or sixty prisoners and four pieces of artillery.
The remainder of the skirmishers fell back on their supports, who occupied some str