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The Daily Dispatch: May 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
re informed by an eye witness to the exciting duel, was terrific. The cannons pealed their dread salvos at the rate of sixty shots per minute. Shot and shell fell in showers around Resaca, and the few citizens who were there changed their base for safety. One shell went through the telegraph office and scattered the occupants, but they were all at their posts again last evening. The enemy never gained an inch, but were repulsed at every point. The following letter from Dalton, May 10th, gives an interesting description of the character of the fighting before Gen Johnston's last movement: The investment of the gaps still goes on. There has scarcely been a minute of daylight for three days in which the ring of the musket or the roar of the cannon has not proclaimed the steady progress of a slow but no less fatal conflict. This incessant duel of artillery and sharpshooting exhibits the most cruel phase of war. It is a deliberate search for individual life, and hants it
The Daily Dispatch: May 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ng up supplies, and now that it is broken he must fall back south of the break and establish himself on a new line. We judge there can be no intermediate point which he will prefer to the south bank of the North Anna. There he may still protect for a time the Virginia Central Railroad against the urgent advance of Grant in front, resuming his connection with Gordonsville and with Richmond, and again deferring for a few days his inevitable retreat. But Gen. Sheridan's dispatch is dated May 10--three days ago. What has he been doing since?--Were he retracing his steps we should probably have heard of his return and if he is pushing on it must be to strike also the Virginia Central, and to render Lee's hold on the south bank of the North Anna as precarious as his present hold on the Po Indeed, assuming the presence of Sheridan's cavalry in Lee's rear, it becomes difficult to foresee the course of the campaign, because the perplexities which surround the rebel army are to be escaped