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The Daily Dispatch: June 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], Banks retreat. (search)
, and out off the detachment between our infantry and the baggage train. Their artillery consisted of Armstrong guns. The most disastrous and bloody slaughter of our cavalry which has occurred during the three days fighting now followed. Cut off as they were from the main body of our troops by a vastly superior number of the enemy, a most critical situation was before them. There were five companies of the 1st Maine cavalry, and two companies. A and C, of the Vermont. Lieut Col. Doughty, of the Maine cavalry, was there, and Major Collins, of Vermont cavalry, also, inferior in command to the Lieutenant-Colonel and to Gen. Hatch. A charge was now made, to describe which is not an agreeable task. In such desperate straits, nothing seemed to daunt the determination of the men, which only served to make their destruction the more sure and terrible. Dashing onward with drawn sabres at the greatest speed, the foremost were suddenly stopped, and those behind, unabl