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The Daily Dispatch: May 17, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
the enemy's. One of our Captains states that he rode, eight hundred yards over the field on Wednesday, the 11th instant, and that he believes he saw five hundred dead Yankees, and that he was informed that the Yankee dead lay much thicker where Gen Ewell fought. We understand that Gen Ewell puts the enemy's loss up to Tuesday at forty thousand in killed, wounded, prisoners, and missing. Prisoners are continually arriving at Orange C. H., some of them humble, but most of them impudent. OnGen Ewell puts the enemy's loss up to Tuesday at forty thousand in killed, wounded, prisoners, and missing. Prisoners are continually arriving at Orange C. H., some of them humble, but most of them impudent. Only two negro soldiers have yet reached Orange C. in uniform. One of them said but little. The other, a cavalryman, was somewhat more --said he was unhorsed at the first fire; that he had made the discovery that he was unfit for the duties of a soldier, and expressed a desire to return to picking cotton, in which very rea desire we sincerely trust his negro ship may be gratified. Many of the Yankee troops who stormed our fortifications came tumbling over the works, cursing and abu
The Daily Dispatch: May 17, 1864., [Electronic resource], From General Lee's army. (search)
rk in handsome style, and yet they seemed to have no stomach for the fight; for three separate assaults upon Anderson's corps (late Longstreet's) were repulsed by his skirmishers and sharpshooters alone. The result was not dissimilar in front of Ewell. The heavy masses of the enemy were pushed back with the case with which one puts a drunken man away from him. The Confederates fought behind field works thrown up hurriedly, and they appeared to relish the run amazingly. The last assault made ho fell into our hands.--It is proper to add that papers have been captured since the battle of the Wilderness which admit a loss there of 20,000. These papers contain a confession also that Grant was beaten badly on his right, (our left,) where Ewell commanded, and that Cordon in his night attack inflicted heavy loss; but they claim that he was successful on his left, (our right.) the first is true, but the latter is not. Our victory was complete on every part of the field. It is reporte
The Daily Dispatch: May 17, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
up Johnson, he didn't find going into Early so comfortable. The day opened this morning with the following cheering news, sent in the form of a dispatch from Gen. Hancock to Gen Grant: "General — I have captured from thirty to forty guns! I have finished up Johnson, and am now going into Early." As I write the whole line is engaged, but the heaviest firing is being done by the second corps. Major General E Johnson is captured. He commanded the "Stonewall" division in Ewell's corps, composed mainly of Virginia troops. No doubt of his captured exists, for he is sitting on a log near a fire before me, at the present moment, in conversation with some of our Generals. He is a stout, rugged looking man, with sandy hair, moustaches, and apparently about forty years of age. A correspondent of the New York Tribune puts the Federal loss at forty thousand up to the close of Tuesday's battle. Of that fight he says: In so horrible a strife it must not