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The Daily Dispatch: May 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], Army of Northern Virginia, near Hanover Junction, May 22, 1864 (search)
Army of Northern Virginia, near Hanover Junction, May 22, 1864 About dusk on Saturday evening a line of battle, consisting of Scales's and Law's N. C., and Davis's Miss., brigades, moved forward from the entrenchments in front of Spotsylvania C. H., and, aided by a brisk artillery fire from our own guns, assaulted and carried the enemy's breastworks, then held by a single line of skirmishers from the Sixth army corps, capturing a few prisoners, but losing rather heavily in killed and wounded, inasmuch as the enemy were posted behind strong entrenchments and our line of advance lay through a tangled undergrowth. This reconnaissance, for such it was, revealed the fact that the enemy's whole army was certainly in motion. Gen. Lee had supposed as much earlier in the day, and during the morning Ewell's corps left the front, moving in the direction of Chesterfield Station. So soon as this reconnaissance was made, everything started rearwards — a general skedaddling among ambulan