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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2, Chapter 27: (search)
losure would have been inconvenient, no return at all was made. No cause in history ever had more ingenious or more unscrupulous adherents in camp or civil life, than the Slaveholders' great rebellion. The enemy lost in prisoners alone more than that number. His killed and wounded, Lee, as usual, failed to report. On the 27th, Lee sent the following despatch, which was withheld from print, and has not found its way into any rebel history: General Hill reports that the enemy crossed Rowanty creek below Burgess's mill, and forced back the cavalry. In the afternoon General Heth attacked and at first drove them, but found them in too strong force. Afterwards the enemy attacked and were repulsed. They still hold the plank road at Burgess's mill. Heth took colors and some prisoners. The despatch given by McCabe and other rebel writers is not on file at Washington. This whole movement, it has been shown, was based on the belief that Lee's entrenchments extended only to the cro
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3, Chapter 27: (search)
losure would have been inconvenient, no return at all was made. No cause in history ever had more ingenious or more unscrupulous adherents in camp or civil life, than the Slaveholders' great rebellion. The enemy lost in prisoners alone more than that number. His killed and wounded, Lee, as usual, failed to report. On the 27th, Lee sent the following despatch, which was withheld from print, and has not found its way into any rebel history: General Hill reports that the enemy crossed Rowanty creek below Burgess's mill, and forced back the cavalry. In the afternoon General Heth attacked and at first drove them, but found them in too strong force. Afterwards the enemy attacked and were repulsed. They still hold the plank road at Burgess's mill. Heth took colors and some prisoners. The despatch given by McCabe and other rebel writers is not on file at Washington. This whole movement, it has been shown, was based on the belief that Lee's entrenchments extended only to the cro
The Daily Dispatch: October 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
e pond, a valley and a bridge lying between them. The artillery on both sides was mostly engaged until late in the evening, when the musketry took part, and the fighting was very severe until after dark. At night our men had failed to dislodge the Yankees from their position, and they still held the Boydton plankroad and Burgess's mill. An official dispatch, received yesterday at the War Department, thus describes the enemy's operations in this quarter: "The enemy crossed Rowanty creek below Burgess's mill, and forced back the cavalry in the afternoon. General Heth attacked, and at first drove them, but found them in too strong force. Afterwards the enemy attacked and were repulsed. They still hold the plankroad at Burgess's mill. Heth took some colors and prisoners. Our loss in killed, wounded and missing is estimated at three hundred. This flank movement places the enemy still further from the Southside railroad than whence he started. It was a detour to
The Daily Dispatch: October 31, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
blished. General Hamtton's operations in the battle south of Petersburg on last Thursday. From the following dispatch of General Lee, received Saturday evening, it will be seen that General Hampton and his brave cavalrymen have made the enemy pay dearly for their encroachments upon his territory last Thursday: --Headquarters Army Northern Virginia, "October 29, 1864. "Hon. James A. Seddon, Secretary of War: "General Hampton followed the enemy on his withdrawal from Rowanty creek, driving his rear guard across and pursuing the cavalry behind the lines of their infantry. "Several hundred prisoners were captured, and the enemy burned some of their caissons and ambulances. "Our lines are re-established. "[Signed] R. E. Lee, General." From the Valley. There was a rumor prevalent yesterday that Brigadier-General Williams, with his cavalry, had met a detachment of the enemy's cavalry in the vicinity of Strasburg and defeated them, capturing a numb
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