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The Daily Dispatch: June 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], The position around Petersburg. (search)
ent, are: The capture of sixteen hundred prisoners, eight stands of colors, four pieces of artillery, and two formidable lines of breastworks. But better than all, we relieve the liac of railroad, and still maintain our communications with the South. Among the prisoners are fifty-seven commissioned officers — but none higher than Colonel. The men belong mainly to the 2d and 4th Brigades, Buney's Division, Hancock's Second Army Corps. We captured no general officers, Cols. Fraser and Custard, both commanding brigades. Some of the prisoners taken; say that the movement towards the railroad was generally regarded as hazardous, and Gen. Hancock was unfortunately taken sick just on the eve of the expedition. Bliney was in command, of whom the prisoners do not speak at all complimentary. They say he invariably manages to get them into trouble. As usual, all nationalities are represented among the prisoners, and many of the men say that they left the trenches around Washingto