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The Daily Dispatch: August 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], The late campaign on the North side of the James. (search)
s were placed, to be used as mortars. Near the village of New Market, and several hundred yards to the left and front of the sea-coast howitzers, a section of Major Starke's Local Defence Artillery (Parrots) were posted as a protection to the-front and left of the mortar howitzers. Our main line of entrenchments were only a shorars at 3 P. M., and the great, huge shells were sent whirling over towards the enemy's line, causing no little confusion in their camps. The mortar howitzers and Starke's Parrot guns joined in the fracas. Pretty soon a gunboat came steaming down the river, and leisurely "heaving to," commenced an accurate fire upon our linesll back to the entrenchments running across New Market Heights. There being no horses to the battery, it was impossible to save it, and for a time we thought Starke's Parrots would " go up;" but finally succeeded in getting them on the hill. Far away in our front we could plainly see the enemy moving heavy columns of inf