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The Daily Dispatch: May 16, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
atch from Gen. Lee. The following dispatch was received at the War Department yesterday evening: Spotsylvania C H., May 14. To the President: The enemy assaulted Wilcox lines this morning and were handsomely repulsed.--Mahone's and Lane's brigades attacked his left, capturing 300 prisoners and four stands of colors. Light skirmishing along the whole line during the day. The enemy seems to be moving towards our right. In the afternoon Wright's and Harris's brigades assaultfighting mostly behind breastworks. The enemy are fighting in the open field and their loss must be terrible. Hill's whole corps has been extensively engaged all day, recovering in some instances the ground lost by other troops, and Mahone's and Lane's brigades, about 2 o'clock, made a most gallant charge, capturing about 300 prisoners and a number of stands of colors. Gens. Ed Johnson and G. H. Stuart are missing, and are supposed to have been captured. About 3 P. M., the firing cea
The Daily Dispatch: May 16, 1864., [Electronic resource], [from our own correspondent.] (search)
int turned towards the enemy. That night our line was made almost straight. During the day two charges occurred which deserve to be mentioned. About two o'clock, whilst the enemy were heavily pressing our right centre, Mahone's Virginia and Lane's North Carolina brigades were ordered to charge the enemy in their front in order to relieve the line thus heavily pressed. This was most gallantly executed. The result was that we captured some two of three hundred prisoners and four stands ofy were reinforced by infantry, driving the enemy back and capturing from him some seventy or eighty prisoners. Everything is quiet at 12 o'clock today. The bearing of most of our troops was superb on Thursday last; but Harris's, Mabone's, and Lane's, and Pegram's brigades I have heard specially commended, as also the whole of Rodes's and Field's divisions. Early and Anderson, as commanders of corps, have shown extraordinary abilities and fitness for their positions. The roads are