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The Daily Dispatch: July 9, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
fth and eleventh Pennsylvania, first District of Columbia and third New York, with the numbers already stated of the second and fifth Ohio and a few other regiments, made their way with great difficulty into our lines, the enemy pursuing and firing upon them until they got within our picket lines on the Jerusalem plank road. Many were doubtless killed and wounded in running this terrible gauntlet, and many a horse and rider must have fallen in the break-neck race through the woods. Col Spear. commanding the Eleventh Pennsylvania and Third New York, was the first to cross the railroad, and notwithstanding the hurry and excitement of the moment, some officer found time to cut the telegraph wires. Our train, including the ambulances and wounded, must have been captured. The caissons of some of our batteries had been blown up before entering the fight at Reams's Station, but the guns and limbers must have fallen into the enemy's hands; not, however, before they were spiked an