Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: June 28, 1864., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Gen Howard or search for Gen Howard in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: June 28, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ts around Petersburg are without a parallel in this war. No such battles as these are fought to Europe, and with any two European armies, face to face, one or the other would inevitably give way before there had been a of the carnage that marked the assaults of Thursday, Friday and Saturday last. From Northern Georgia. Gen Sherman's dispatch of Tuesday evening (21st) states that, in spite of very heavy rains, his front has been pushed forward, and an important position gained by Gen Howard. A desperate at tack was made by the enemy the night previous to regain his old position. Seven assaults were made on Gen Whittaker's brigade, of Stanley's division, on Monday night, in which the rebels lost seven hundred men, two hundred being left dead in Whittaker's front. A heavy artillery fire followed the attack under which our position was fortified and made quittance. Gen Sherman reports that his cavalry is now across Noonday creek, and a portion of his intently across Mose