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The Daily Dispatch: May 9, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ement was evidently to tear up the railroad and burn the bridge over Swift Creek. They lost heavily yesterday, but carried off their killed and wounded. The movements of the enemy on the Southside appears to be of a vacillating character. Gilmore and Baldy Smith are in command of the white troops, while Beast Butler is in supreme command of the expedition. One large brigade, numbering about 4,000, are negroes, under the immediate command of Gen. Hinks. It was this brigade who accomplis and retired from the field, leaving some dead and wounded. The heaviest fighting was on our left, near the railroad, where chiefly South Carolinians were engaged. Our casualties are 175--about thirty killed. Prisoners taken say they belong to Gilmore's corps, and are recently from Florida, and that Butler commanded in person. the enemy lost heavily — prisoners say 2,000. All quiet to-day, save slight firing from gunboats in the Appomattox. Brilliant affair — destruction of the gun