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The Daily Dispatch: August 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
resent too small for offensive operations. In the engagement of the 18th instant, at Fussel's Mill, the Fifteenth Alabama regiment lost forty killed and wounded. Among the wounded are Colonel A. A. Louther, Captain B. A. Hill, Captain W. H. Stricklin, Lieutenant H. Fields, and Lieutenant D. Thornton. Major W. C. Oats, commanding the Forty-eighth Alabama, lost an arm, and Major G. W. Cary, commanding the Forty-fourth Alabama, was wounded. From the Valley. We learn by late advices that the Yankees have all left the Valley of Virginia. On their retreat they indulged their villainous propensities by burning barns, crops, and plundering the inhabitants generally. So ends Sheridan's famous movement to "clean out"Early's command. From Georgia. Dispatches from Atlanta state that the enemy's cavalry which struck the Macon railroad on the 19th were met on the next day by a portion of our forces and routed, losing two stands of colors and one piece of artillery.
The Daily Dispatch: August 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
he Confederates on the north side of James river, it would be safer to put the number down at five hundred. We are also told that one of the objects of the expedition was to prevent the enemy from drowning out the men engaged in digging the canal across Dutch Gap A few had been drowned and a considerable amount of stores swept off before Grant interrupted the operation. From the Valley — Sheridan's retreat. General Sheridan, who started on the 9th from Hall Town, Virginia, to drive Early up the Shenandoah Valley, bring him to battle, and, if possible, defeat him, advanced with this intent as far as Strasburg; but in consequence of the capture of his supply train, he soon afterwards fell back to Winchester, reaching that place on. Tuesday last. His sudden return from an expedition, on whose success very high hopes were based, has caused quite a trepidation all along the border, and has given rise to innumerable rumors, some of which may be true, but the most of which are und