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The Daily Dispatch: June 27, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 13 (search)
e regiment being all that he had at his command.--for its protection and defence, whilst troops from other quarters were gotten together and hurried off in the direction of the threatened point. At four o'clock a dispatch was received from Col. D. J. Godwin, commanding the forces at the bridge, that the enemy had made an attack, and the fight was then going on, and concluding with an appeal for the reinforcements to be hurried up. Trains were dispatched with troops both on the Central and small force contending with the enemy on the South Anna, which was finally overpowered and compelled to yield the possession of the bridge to the enemy, who at once fired it, and in a comparatively short time it was completely destroyed. Col. Godwin immediately telegraphed the fact to the commandant of this department, and in his dispatch stated that the enemy were moving in considerable force on the bridge over the South Anna on the Fredericksburg road; that their force consisted of infa