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The Daily Dispatch: July 25, 1863., [Electronic resource], The last fight at Jackson. (search)
ile Tribune writes that paper an account of the last fight that took place on the 12th, before Gen. Johnston evacuated the city. He says: The attack made on our left was only in tended as a reconnaissance on the part of the enemy, but General Stovall kept his command secreted and led them to believe that they could take the work, and for this belief they paid dearly, losing 600 men in the attempt.--General Breckinridge speaks in the highest terms of the conduct of our troops engaged, who were Stovall's Florida brigade, the 32d Alabama, Cobb's Kentucky battery, and the 5th company Washington Artillery. The enemy came up in fine style, evidently thinking they had an easy task before them, but the gallant Floridans and Alabamans soon undeceived them, and save a few of the 3d Iowa and the "Bloody 53d," Illinois, who ran like sheep, the remainder were killed, wounded or captured, together with all their colors, save that of the 3d Iowa, the color-bearer of which ran away with it a