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The Daily Dispatch: August 1, 1864., [Electronic resource] 11 1 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 3 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 1 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
he gained temporary possession of the salient. While our loss of men by this exploit was not large, we regret to say that it includes a number of the members of Pegram's battery, of Petersburg. But his triumph, if it can be called so, was short lived. The invincible Mahone threw his veterans upon the enemy, recovered the salien last evening brought over some two hundred and twenty of our wounded. Up to the time the train left Petersburg everything remained quiet on the lines. Pegram's Battery was formerly commanded by Capt. James R. Branch (promoted to a Lieutenant-Colonelcy,) but is now under the command of Capt. R. G. Pegram. It is thoughtCapt. R. G. Pegram. It is thought that a good many of its men, at first supposed to have been killed, were stunned and taken prisoners. We understand that our military authorities are well satisfied with the day's work, and believe it has spoiled Grant's new plan for the reduction of Petersburg. The Northern Border. It has been currently reported fo
The Daily Dispatch: August 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
ttack might be made somewhere else. In obedience to this suggestion everything in the department of the Army of Northern Virginia was on the qui vive. About five o'clock this morning the mine was sprung on the Baxter road. The explosion caused a loud, deep noise, and the fragments of earth were at once flying in every direction, making a rent in the lines of some thirty or forty yards, just at one of these, to us, fatd sattents. This sudden explosion scattered the guns (four pieces of Pegram's battery, Branch's battalion, of this city,) in every direction, and tore lifeless and limbless some of its gunners, and buried others in the earth, along with many of us supports, the poor fellows of Evans's S. C. brigade, commanded by temporary Brigadier-General Elliott, who, I regret to say, received a wound in the melee which is reported to be a mortal one. No sooner had the explosion occurred and the fragments reached the earth than Burnsides minions--"black spirits and gray"--bou
The Daily Dispatch: August 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
ttack might be made somewhere else. In obedience to this suggestion everything in the department of the Army of Northern Virginia was on the qui vive. About five o'clock this morning the mine was sprung on the Baxter road. The explosion caused a loud, deep noise, and the fragments of earth were at once flying in every direction, making a rent in the lines of some thirty or forty yards, just at one of these, to us, fatd sattents. This sudden explosion scattered the guns (four pieces of Pegram's battery, Branch's battalion, of this city,) in every direction, and tore lifeless and limbless some of its gunners, and buried others in the earth, along with many of us supports, the poor fellows of Evans's S. C. brigade, commanded by temporary Brigadier-General Elliott, who, I regret to say, received a wound in the melee which is reported to be a mortal one. No sooner had the explosion occurred and the fragments reached the earth than Burnsides minions--"black spirits and gray"--bou
The Daily Dispatch: August 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
[important news from Petersburg. Petersburg, July 30. --The enemy sprung a mine under our works on the Baxter Road, one and a half miles from the city, this morning about 5 o'clock, blowing up a considerable portion of our works, which were occupied by Pegram's battery, of this city, supported by Elliott's South Carolina brigade. A number of lives w The enemy at once bounded forward driving in our forces and occupying a large portion of our lines. Mahone being notified of the condition of affairs, harried his own and Wright's brigades to the scene of action. On their arrival he threw them forward to retake the works temporarily lost. Bounding forward with a yell, they recaptured a large portion of the line temporarily lost and took forty commissioned officers and four hundred privates, representing four divisions of Burnside's corps. Among the prisoners were some 20 negroes. The slaughter of the enemy during the engagement is represented by distinguished of