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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 611 5 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 134 60 Browse Search
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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 57 1 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2 48 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 41 41 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 34 0 Browse Search
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 28 0 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: August 22, 1864., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Deep Bottom (Virginia, United States) or search for Deep Bottom (Virginia, United States) in all documents.

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The Daily Dispatch: August 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ced position back to their main line of entrenchments, and that they still held the railroad last evening. Reliable accounts will doubtless be received from Petersburg at an early hour to-day. Below Richmond. Nothing of importance has occurred on the north side of James river, below Richmond, since the reconnaissance on Thursday. The two corps sent over by Grant, it is ascertained, have recrossed to the south side, leaving only the division commanded by Foster, which has been at Deep Bottom for some time past. The firing heard on Friday evening was the enemy's gunboats shelling Howlett's field, a position in which they supposed the rebels had created a battery. It was without effect, save an useless expenditure of Yankee ammunition. Northern papers of the 17th assert that the object of the movement on the north side of the James was to destroy the rebel pontoon bridges above "Fort Darling," as they call Drewry's Bluff; while papers of the 18th are quite as positive th
The Daily Dispatch: August 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
We have received, through the courtesy of Captain Hatch, files of Northern papers to the evening of the 17th. We give from them some details of news: The movement up the James river. Additional particulars have been received of the action of Sunday. Part of the Second corps and part of the Tenth corps engaged the enemy in the afternoon near Deep Bottom. The Tenth corps, under General Birney, captured part of a line of earthworks with four eight- inch brass guns and a number of prisoners. His loss was small. The enemy fell back to a strong position. The second division of the Second corps was drawn up in line of battle and advanced about a mile beyond where General Hancock captured the four guns two weeks ago. Here the First brigade, Colonel Mace commanding, took the lead and charged across a corn-field over a hill and down into a ravine, where they came to a swamp, with a stream on the other side, and the ground covered with impenetrable brush on the margin.