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The Daily Dispatch: May 11, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
cksburg, and got Marye's Hill after losing three times as many as the force which defended it, swept up the plankroad and met their fate on Monday, when Early's, Anderson's, and McLaws's forces enclosed them in a crescent of fire and swept them back towards the river. That closed the debate. It became a mere question of safely recrossing the Rappahannock. At Banks's ford McLaws alone took 600 prisoners and 19 officers. His horse was struck as well as himself on Sunday. His staff officers--Major Goggin, Major E. L. Costin, Capt Lamar, and Capt. E. Taliaferro--discharged their duties nobly, and escaped harm in the storm of bullets which fell so thick and fast. I have not space or time except to give you now a few hurried sentences, which may help to give you some better idea of the battles. The enemy's loss must be 25,000. At least 40,000 small arms and 26 cannon we have taken. One good result is the proof afforded of our improved artillery.--Major Latimer, with two batteries, d