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The Daily Dispatch: May 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], [from our own Correspondent.] (search)
raph road, our cavalry met them and hold them in check. Early yesterday morning, about daylight, a picked command of Yankees, composed. It is said, of volunteers who were called on by Grant in person, inside a faint of a purpose to assault our but they had scarcely mole their appearance on Lowell's which our artillery opened upon them with grape, shrapnel, and case shot. commanded the enemy's column, but their performances reflected little credit upon that nerve and dash for which Yankee claim that Hancock is noted. So feeble was the attack that our officers were both to be have that if was meant in earnest. The enemy advanced but a short distance, when they engaged our skirmishers, who held them in check until we had massed twenty pieces of artillery in position. These suddenly opened upon the enemy, when our skirmishers retired and our infantry fire of battle fired into them. For more than an hour the roar of artillery was incessant and the battle of musketry quit
The Daily Dispatch: May 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
fight — we will not attempt to set a limit to his capacity in that respect — if he can get food, but he can get food only over the two railroads above referred to, and both of them may be at the mercy of Gen. Philip Sheridan. It is this element of the campaign which so immensely accelerates its progress. The arrival and Reception of Major General Sedgwick's remains in New York. The body of Major General Sedgwick, killed in Grant's army, arrived in New York last week. He was a Connecticut Yankee, and there was a general turning out of New Englanders to lament over him. The Herald has the following account of the obsequies. The remains of Major General Sedswick, who was killed in the recent battles of Virginia while riding a long the front, arrived in this city yesterday morning to charge of Major Whinter, Captain Halsted, and Captain Beaumont, late of his staff and four cavalrymen, who escorted the body from the battle field to Fredericksburg, thence to Plain and Washingt