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The Daily Dispatch: August 27, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ing was severe for the time it lasted, but we have the reiterated assurance that our loss is not large, while that of the enemy is heavy. Among the wounded are Brigadier-General Anderson, of Georgia, and Major Marshall, of Fauquier county, Virginia--neither of them dangerously. The following official dispatch from General Lee, received last evening at the War Department, gives further details of our brilliant victory: "Headquarters army Northern Virginia, "August 26, 1864. "Hon. J. A. Seddon, Secretary of War: "General A. P. Hill attacked the enemy in his entrenchments at Reams's station yesterday evening, and at the second assault carried his entire line. "Cook's and McRae's North Carolina brigades, under General Heth, and Lane's North Carolina brigade, of Wilcox's division, under General Connor, with Pegram's artillery, composed the assaulting party. "One line of breastworks was carried by the cavalry under General Hampton with great gallantry, who contrib