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The Daily Dispatch: January 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], Negro Hiring for 1862. (search)
f veterans, driving him several times from his position with heavy loss. when the action had last about two hours, I found that the enemy, being already in force larger than my own, was recovering from his disorder, and receiving heavy reinforcements, I could not with my small numbers, being beyond the reach of reinforcements, force his position without fearful sacrifice, and seeing that his artillery, superior to ours in number and position only, was pouring a very destructive fire into Cutt's battery, I decided to withdraw the latter at once, preparatory to retiring from the field — judging, too, that I had given our wagons ample time to get out of reach of the enemy. The battery suffered greatly. Its position was necessarily such that it could fire only to the front, and the caissons and limbers had no cover whatever from such a fire. Three or four cannoneers had been shot at their posts and several wounded, and every shot of the enemy was dealing destruction on either man,