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The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], The movements on Richmond — the fighting around Richmond. (search)
, a point near Yellow Tavern. Col. Randolph, of the 4th Va. regiment, (cavalry,) was killed in this fight. Movements During Yesterday. Yesterday morning, about sunrise, the enemy, finding that the Meadow bridges, over the Chickahominy, were burnt, attempted to go down the Mechanicsville road. On this road they were met by a body of infantry (the name of which command need not be stated) and repulsed, after a brisk fight. They then fell back into a dense body of woods, on Mr. H. P. Taylor's farm, near Scrawberry Hill. To the edge of this woods, which is distant from the city fortifications about a half mile, across a field, they advanced their artillery and some infantry skirmishers, and commenced a brisk fire.--our infantry skirmishers advanced and drove them from the edge of the wood. During most of the day the fighting here was kept up without much effect on either side, very few of our men being killed or wounded. Yesterday morning, about 9 o'clock, the 2d Vir