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The Daily Dispatch: September 7, 1864., [Electronic resource], The fight at Reams's station. (search)
discern a change in his own body every seven years. There is no difference in the corps insignia. The men are fed as well, and apparently march and fight as well as ever. It is only under peculiar circumstances, like those in which Gibbon's and Miles's divisions were placed during Wednesday afternoon, that any difference can be observed. Thrice the rebels charged, each time with augmented numbers and increased fury. When our soldiers saw their backs for the third time, contempt for their foes was only equalled by the confidence they felt in themselves. Many of the regiments in Miles's division were composed of new men — substitutes; aliens, and drafted men. The Seventh New York had just received three hundred such. Most of them were ignorant of company drill, and knew so little of the manual of arms they could scarcely load and fire. The enthusiasm of these men was unbounded when the rebels were repulsed in their first charge. When the enemy appeared before their works, and a