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The Daily Dispatch: June 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 12 (search)
[Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch]the fight on the New Kent road. Camp Tennessee Brigade, May 31st, 1862. Having never seen any mention in the papers of the skirmish that General Hatton's brigade was engaged in on the New Kent C. H. Read last Saturday, the 24th inst., I take the liberty, even in the eleventh hour, of asking you to publish the particulars in your excellent paper. Gen. Hatton's brigade, consisting of the 1st, 7th and 14th Tennessee regiments, and Capt. G. M. Braxton Fredericksburg artillery company, which is attached to the brigade, had been acting on the rear guard for nearly two weeks, when on Saturday, the 24th inst., it was decided by Gen Hatton to attack, and try the strength of the enemy's advance guard. The bugle having sounded at 3 o'clock in the morning, we moved forward about half a mile from our camp, the artillery leaving their caissons behind. Having selected our position, which was a large field on both sides of the road, surrounded