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The Daily Dispatch: August 4, 1863., [Electronic resource] 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 4, 1863., [Electronic resource], Progress of the War. (search)
covered not only with trees up to within twenty rods of the regiment, but the intervening space is covered with an undergrowth of pine trees and stubble. Gen. Custer, when made aware of this flank movement, at once ordered a charge to be made; practicable under ordinary circumstances, but just at this point an impracticabilithrough Thornton's Gap and Sperryville on Thursday, and on Friday morning at 6 o'clock it reached Culpeper. Hill's command was immediately in his rear. As Gen Custer's orders were solely to ascertain the position of the enemy, in obedience to orders he fell back to Amissville. Our loss during the two days reconnaissance will probably not exceed six killed and thirty wounded. Lieut. Sabin, of Gen. Custer's staff, was severely wounded in the side by a shell, and was left on the field. The enemy saw fit neither to parole nor take him away, and this morning he was brought in. How Lincoln recruits his army. A gentleman, recently from Norfolk, gi