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The Daily Dispatch: July 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], The movements on Charleston. (search)
at the distance of a mile from Fort Stevens came to a fence thrown across the road, and occupied as a breast work by the rebels the day previous. Here were the marks of hard fighting. Union and rebel muskets, some broken, and others unbroken, bats, caps, haversacks, cap pouches, and thousands of cartridges and bullets were scattered here and there on both sides of the rebel breastworks and among the rifle pits dug by the Union soldiers in a field near by. I visited the residence of Dr. S. Heath and Capt. A. J. Richardson, who together occupied the house on the right of the road and over a mile from Fort Stevens. Here, indeed, was a sorry picture. Heating of the approach of the rebels, on Monday morning, they removed the female members of the family to the fort, and before they could return the rebels had possession of the premises. Everything about the place is scattered in great confusion and what clothing could be made use of by the rebels is exchanged for their less attrac