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The Daily Dispatch: July 2, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
and A. P. Hill were advancing to the right, and Gen. Huger by our left, when about three o'clock on Monday our scouts announced that the foe were in strong force in camp, and all things prepared to receive us. Pushing forward on the Darbytown (Charles City) road to the right, it seemed to be evidently a part of the plan that Huger's advance on the left should be made simultaneously. About 3 P. M. Longstreet advanced upon the enemy and drove in their dense body of skirmishers, supported as the had discharged his duty. Death of a gallant officer. Among the many gallant soldiers whose spirits winged their flights upward in the fierce contest which ensued between the patriot and the abolition forces on Monday evening on the Charles City road, the memory of none will be cherished wish more fond regret by those who knew him while living than that of Joseph V. Scott, Lieutenant Colonel of the 3d Regiment Virginia Infantry, who was struck by a shell and instantly killed on that m
The Daily Dispatch: July 2, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
t a mean distance of ten or twelve miles from that river, until it (the Chickahominy) reaches the lower end of Charles City county, when it abruptly turns southwardly and empties into the James. It is the northern boundary of both Henrico and Charles City. It is skirted generally by wide low lands, and in some parts considerable swamps. McClellan army had, a part of it, crossed to the South side of the Chickahominy, and were fortified on the Williamsburg road, and adjacent to it, to within se Stuart's cavalry on the North side. "The retreat which began from the North side on Friday night, on yesterday changed into a flight; and the foot races of the armies of the Potomac are now being run down towards the James River, through Charles City. The position of the armies at the time of writing this, owing to McClellan's rapid movements and brilliant strategy, may be designated as decidedly shifting; indeed dissolving views are the principal parts of the flying Federal panorama.