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The Daily Dispatch: August 2, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
fully, but with the first good whipping, their courage, like that of Bob Acres, oozes out at their finger's ends. We learned last evening some additional incidents of the fight. It is stated that after the charge by Mahone's, Wright's, and Saunders's brigades, the enemy, finding escape impossible, rushed for safety into the immense hole made by their explosion, and around the edge of this chasm our men closed and fought hand to hand. The contest was a desperate one, and General Saunders'sGeneral Saunders's men, after removing a large number of wounded, buried in this hole on Saturday night fifty-five negro troops and one hundred and seventy-eight whites. Between our breastworks and the enemy's on Saturday night large numbers of dead and wounded were still lying, the latter begging piteously for water and praying for assistance. Our men could render them no aid, as they were in full range of the enemy's sharpshooters, who had not ceased their firing even under such appalling circumstances.