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The Daily Dispatch: May 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], Confederate States Congress. (search)
lectricity forms in the heavens, all the lesser clouds and racks drift to it, and are swallowed up in the swelling, angry mass. Grant strove hard to hold us to other parts of the field, and prevent this concentration of force, and for that purpose he engaged Anderson on our left, and Early, who had been sent to the extreme right. He made three separate assaults against the former, but was repulsed each time with frightful loss by Fields's division, formerly Hood's. Early, at the head of Hill's corps, buried him back, as a mad bull would an incautious mastiff caught upon his horns, as often as he advanced upon him. But it was against Ewell, who held the right of the original line, that Grant expended his greatest efforts and made his most desperate assaults.--Having gained a foothold in the angle or centre of Ewell's position, he brought up line after line and buried it with tremendous violence, at one time against Rodes, at another against Gordon, and then against both. Wil