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The Daily Dispatch: October 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
e pond, a valley and a bridge lying between them. The artillery on both sides was mostly engaged until late in the evening, when the musketry took part, and the fighting was very severe until after dark. At night our men had failed to dislodge the Yankees from their position, and they still held the Boydton plankroad and Burgess's mill. An official dispatch, received yesterday at the War Department, thus describes the enemy's operations in this quarter: "The enemy crossed Rowanty creek below Burgess's mill, and forced back the cavalry in the afternoon. General Heth attacked, and at first drove them, but found them in too strong force. Afterwards the enemy attacked and were repulsed. They still hold the plankroad at Burgess's mill. Heth took some colors and prisoners. Our loss in killed, wounded and missing is estimated at three hundred. This flank movement places the enemy still further from the Southside railroad than whence he started. It was a detour to