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The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
opened a heavy fire upon that portion of the line as soon as the earth was washed away, and the Yankees gave way and fled in confusion to their main works. The sickness in Grant's army is reported to be on the increase, and hospitals have been erected at intervals on all the roads leading to City Point. After the above was written we received the press dispatch, giving an account of operations near Petersburg yesterday. It appears that the raiders were met by Walker's Virginia and Davis's Mississippi brigades, and a fight ensued, in which we captured one hundred and fifty- eight prisoners. The latest news is that the enemy was on the retreat. From the Valley. We have information from Early's army as late as Sunday last. Our forces had been in line of battle for two days, but the Yankees, so far from manifesting a disposition to make an attack, appeared to be withdrawing from our immediate front. There is no foundation for the rumor that a battle took place on Sa
The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
. The firing was kept up for an hour and a half, when all subsided into usual quiet on our side. No casualties are reported. The enemy's cavalry are making some demonstration on our right this morning. [Second Dispatch.] Petersburg, August 18. --A force of the Fifth corps of the enemy, assisted by cavalry, broke through our cavalry lines on our right this morning, and succeeded in reaching the Weldon railroad just above thesix-mile station, tearing up a part of the railroad — some say as much as two miles. H. H. Walker's Virginia and Davis's Mississippi brigades coming upon the raiders, a sharp fight ensued, the result of which is not fully ascertained. One hundred and fifty-eight prisoners, including eight officers, captured in the fight, have arrived here. The enemy is in retreat, by latest advices.--The prisoners say the move had a two-fold object, to draw troops from our front in order, if possible, to charge our works, and, secondly, to break the road.