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The Daily Dispatch: November 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], The fight at Petersburg. (search)
le them to go further. This position was about eight miles southeast of Petersburg, on the Boydton and Petersburg railroad. This was about 12 o'clock noon. Hampton had gallantly thought them all the morning, but was forced back by the great odds he was contending against, namely six picked divisions of their infantry, from t more dense, if anything, than the Wilderness — he struck the enemy about 4 P. M. A fierce engagement ensued, and the enemy were driven back. At the same moment, Hampton and his cavalry having passed entirely around the enemy, fall upon them like a thunderbolt from Heaven, and press them in every direction. This is the opportune 29, 1864. To-day, details from our side have been busy burying the Yankee dead and attending their wounded. The country will learn, with regret, that General Hampton lost in this fight one son killed and one wounded, but the General attends to me duties with unflinching fidelity. X. Petersburg, Va., October 31--1 P. M
The Daily Dispatch: November 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
high ranks and great experience, who is, moreover, one of the most gallant soldier in the service, speaking to us of the stricture upon the cavalry service which appeared in this last Saturday, assures us that we are mistaken. one very material point of history. Our cavalry frequently charged, he says, man to man, and to horse, during this war, and always successfully. They made such a charge in Williamsburg, and at several other battle. In the battle of Gettysburg particularly, General Hampton made a number of most brilliant charges, killing four of the enemy with his own sabre, receiving a severe cut ever the head and a bullet through the thigh, and the enemy's horse on each occasion. It was the enemy, it appears, who first converted their cavalry into mounted infantry, not us; and they didn't for the simple reason that they were unable to meet us in the cavalry charge, our men being by far the litter fiders, and every way superior in this kind of although the Yankee hors