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The Daily Dispatch: July 9, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
breastworks, had captured the whole party. Gen Kantz, on reaching Reams's Station, soon found that the enemy were strongly posted at that point also, and was sharply engaged before daylight. Wilson, with the troops he had brought up from Stony Creek, passed by Kantz rear, and was about to take position on his left, but had hardly formed in line of battle when he was attacked by a heavy force of infantry. A column of cavalry in the meantime, accounts say, passing round to the rear. T to the westward on every road by which our troops could possibly approach, and carried information of the direction in time to meet us with a superior force at any point. It is difficult to ascertain exactly, which troops were encountered at Stony Creek and Reams's Station, but it is certain that there was infantry at both points, besides probably the greater portion of their cavalry. The 6th corps was immediately ordered out to the assistance of the cavalry, but by the time they arrived