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The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], War Matters (search)
War Matters
We have been furnished with an extract from a private letter written by a member of Otey's Battery to his father, in this city.
It will gratify the many friends of the company to learn that the men bore themselves gallantly in the recent fight in Giles county.
The letter from which we copy is dated Wolf Gap, May 13th:
The fight in Giles county.
The great desire of my life has at last been realized — that of being in a battle.
Last Friday night Gen. Heth, with 1,500 infantry, our two guns, one 24 pound howitzer, 4 mountain howitzers, and a company of cavalry, started from Shannon Gap, at 10 o'clock at night, to attack the enemy at Giles Court-House, a small village of 300 or 400 inhabitants.
We marched all night, a distance of thirteen miles, and gave battle at sunrise the next morning.
We got to the court-house about sunrise, and immediately commenced the attack by throwing shells and shot into their ranks for half an hour, when the cowardly dogs, fin