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The Daily Dispatch: April 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], Interesting from Europe. (search)
r by omission, we think it due to the gallant corps in question, to state the facts as they certainly occurred. The Hampden Battery, commanded, at the time, by 1st Lieut James Pleasants, Captain Marye being absent on recruiting service, was leficipate. But, about 4 o'clock the 5th Virginia was ordered off to the left flank, and about half-past 5 the 42d and the Hampden-Battery were ordered in the same direction. They hurried off to the scene of conflict, and before they reached the spotetiring down the hill, and at this time our forces were giving way to the enormously superior numbers of the enemy. The Hampden Battery was in imminent danger of being taken. A few yards only separated it from the Yankees, who were charging on our in the field below the woods — and by their undaunted courage saved the battery from capture. It thus appears that the Hampden battery was not altogether "in the reserve." It did not, indeed, get into action — but it passed through a raking cross