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The Daily Dispatch: June 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
of Sturdivant's battery, and a number of the men, including Capt S, and also batteries number five to seven inclusive. That of five is an exceedingly important one, and is the key to the rest. Just here it is not improper to say that these works were constructed by a civil engineer, and are said to be of no kind of service, and were so pronounced by Gen Beauregard when first he saw them. The first very severe fighting occurred on Thursday, near battery No. 9. Here the enemy assaulted Hoke's lines, and, after a considerable fight, were handsomely repulsed, we capturing some three or four hundred prisoners, and they capturing a number of ours. On Thursday the enemy also made an advance on the north side of the Appomattox, cutting the railroad at Port Walthall, but were in turn dislodged that evening by Pickett. This is the only matter of interest that has occurred on the the north side, except the attempt to ascend Swift Creek, which is one of the tributaries of the Appomattox