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The Daily Dispatch: July 31, 1863., [Electronic resource], Latest from the North. (search)
ey held possession for something more than two hours. The enemy rallied, and having received large reinforcements made a charge and expelled them by the sheer force of numbers. One of the regiments engaged in that dash was the 48th New York, Colonel Barton, and it came out almost decimated.--The most distressing part of its disaster is that the enemy did not inflict the damage. It was fired upon by a regiment that gained the parapet some minutes after it, under the supposition that it was the of killed, wounded, and missing, foots up fifteen hundred and thirty. Among the killed are Col. Putman, 7th N. H. Colonel Shaw, 54th Mass; Lieut Col. Grier, 48th N Y; and Adjutant Libby, of the 3d N H. General Seymour, was wounded in the foot; Col. Barton, of the 48th N Y, and Lieut Col. Rodman, 6th Conn, were seriously wounded. Our dead were buried on Monday, that portion, at least, of them that were on the field within the limits that our burying party were allowed to approach the rebel work