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The Daily Dispatch: may 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], $20 reward. (search)
r army in fullipursuil and the troops one and all fully inspired by the prospects of the upproaching engagement. At eleven o'clock our advance came up with the enemy, their front being concealed in a heavy thicket on the opposite side of an immense field of some four hundred acres. Haiting a few moments to allow the Confederates to form in their respective positions, a portion of Van Dorn's and Huggles's divisions opened the ball. A Louisland battery of six guns, under command of Feilx Q. Robinson, of Texas, was thrown forward in the field, and for more than one hour alone sustained the bruat of the conflict. For fully half an hour the guns remained unsupported by infantry, while musket balls, round shot, and shell were whizzing in every direction around them. Yet not a man faltered, and the battery won golden opinions for the gailant stand it made. Once, and only once, a Federal regiment of cavalry came dashing down upon it like a cloud, sabres flashing and horses runnin
The Daily Dispatch: may 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 16 (search)
mmunication by two rivers is perfect, we shall want for nothing. Besides, the battle of Williamsburg was fought and won by men who had lived on hard crackers for forty-eight hours, and had been all the time in the rain and mud. Men who can go through that are invincible. I have just learned of a brisk little skirmish which took place at Slatersville, two miles from here, on Friday last, between the 6th regiment of cavalry, the 2d Rhode Island regiment, the 98th Pensylvania, and Major Robinson's battery of six pieces on our side, and ten regiments of infantry, two regiments of cavalry, and three batteries of artillery on the part of the rebels. Our force engaged at that time was ten miles in advance of any supports, yet it gallantly attacked and utterly routed the rebels. A negro, a very desperate character, was hung at West Point, on the river, last Friday, for the cold-blooded murder of two Massach usetts soldiers. He had caught them asleep alone, and murdered them fo