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The Daily Dispatch: October 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
it out a reconnaissance. He, however, does not explain to our satisfaction what manner of a reconnaissance it is, when the reconnoitering party makes, between nine o'clock in the morning and four in the afternoon, five determined assaults upon one point of the enemy's lines, being each time repulsed with heavy loss. The truth of the matter is, that the Yankees determined to drive us from a new line of works, which we had just constructed, running from Fort Gilmer northwardly towards the Charles City road, and last Thursday they undertook the work, and though they strove desperately, both whites and negroes, they were defeated and driven off, "leaving," as General Lee said in his official report, "many of their dead upon the field." If they had succeeded, it would have been "a brilliant and successful attack"; having failed, it is set down by the Yankees as "a reconnaissance in force, the objects of which were fully accomplished." Returned Naval men. The following is a list o