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The Daily Dispatch: August 2, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ong as they fight successfully, but with the first good whipping, their courage, like that of Bob Acres, oozes out at their finger's ends. We learned last evening some additional incidents of the fight. It is stated that after the charge by Mahone's, Wright's, and Saunders's brigades, the enemy, finding escape impossible, rushed for safety into the immense hole made by their explosion, and around the edge of this chasm our men closed and fought hand to hand. The contest was a desperate onsix hundred feet; yet the work, with the appliances brought into requisition by the Yankees, is not so great as might be supposed. It is done chiefly by boring, and an immense amount of work can be accomplished in a short space of time. General Mahone's brigade lost one hundred and eighty in killed and wounded, and the division commanded by him four hundred and fifty. In the brigade are several companies made up of young men of Petersburg and Richmond. Among the prisoners are three C
The Daily Dispatch: August 2, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Our troops to-day are busy burying the Yankee dead left in our lines. All quiet to-day. About 2 o'clock a flag of truce was sent into our lines. The object is unascertained, but is supposed to be for the purpose of getting a truce to bury the Yankee dead between our lines. [Second Dispatch.] Petersburg, August 1. --Our losses in Saturday's affair foot up twelve hundred--three hundred killed and wounded and three hundred prisoners from Elliott's South Carolina brigade. Mahone's losses are about four hundred and fifty killed and wounded. The mine was sprung on Bushord Johnson's front. Yesterday evening Burnside sent a flag of truce, asking permission to bury his dead. His communication was returned with the endorsement that the application of the commanding general of the army of the Potomac would be entertained. Meade then sent a flag. Permission was granted, and the hours from 5 to 9 named. This period was diligently occupied. Seven hundred of