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The Daily Dispatch: October 30, 1862., [Electronic resource], Particulars of the fight near Charleston. (search)
ral Terry. Having effected their landing at an early hour and driven in our pickets, the Yankees advanced rapidly towards the railroad. The Charleston Mercury says: They first encountered our forces about eleven o'clock A. M., and the fighting was kept up with more or less spirit from that time until five o'clock P. M., when the enemy began to waver and finally fall back in disorder, leaving his dead upon the field. The action is described by an eye-witness to have been a second Secessionville affair, in the disparity of the forces engaged, in the stubborn character of the contest, and in the completeness of the repulse. Capt. Elliott's battery and the Virginia battery are said to have covered themselves with glory. A later report, though not official, places the number of our casualties at twenty killed and sixty wounded. The heaviest loss was suffered by the Virginia Artillery; Captain J. N. Lamhin, a gallant corps, which has served on our coast ever since the fall of