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The Daily Dispatch: September 28, 1863., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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k A. M. the battle opened on our right, in the course of an hour the firing because heavy and rapid, the batteries of Forrest's and Walker's divisions, and the reserve, Capt. Lumsden's battery, in command of Major Palmer, Chief of Artillery, keeping up a perfect roar of fire, which was fully returned by the enemy. The lines of both armies moved to and fro like the advancing and receding waves of the sea. Cheatham's division soon became under fire, with its artillery under command of Major Melauthon Smith. The fight was kept up with varied success, when the gallant division of General Cleburne charged the enemy after dark, by moonlight, and drove them two miles from their first line of battle and in front of Alexander's bridge. It was here the brave Gen. Preston Smith fell. After this victorious and most brilliant achievement our army rested on their arms for the night. During the fight Capt. Carnes's battery was captured, all the horses being killed, and all the artillerists bein