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The Daily Dispatch: August 2, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
The Baltimore Gazette, of the 30th ult., was received last night. The Agent of the Press Association has furnished the following summary: The affair near Deep Bottom. We have previously mentioned the fact that the Confederates were making an attempt to occupy Malvern Hill and Harrison's Landing for the purpose of rendering Butler's position at Bermuda Hundred insecure, if not untenable. We now learn that, on Wednesday, General Grant threw two pontoon bridges across the James river, and sent the Second corps to the northern side of that stream for the purpose of counteracting the designs of the enemy. The Federal troops made good their landing, but were immediately attacked before they had time to organize. They succeeded, however, in driving back the opposing force, which consisted only of skirmishers, and in capturing some fifty or sixty prisoners and four pieces of artillery. The remainder of the skirmishers fell back on their supports, who occupied some st