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The Daily Dispatch: April 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], The War. (search)
to-day for the following extract: The battle on Sunday. Almost at dawn Sherman's pickets were driven in, a very little later Prentiss's were; and the enemy wl disasters that opened the rebel onset on the lines of Buckland's brigade, in Sherman's division. Similar, though perhaps less terrible in some of the details, weridge, firing as they ran, and making what resistance, men thus situated might, Sherman's men succeeded in partially checking the rush of the enemy long enough to foreeping up against their fronts, too, and the battle thus opened fiercely along Sherman's whole line on the right. Buckland's brigade had been compelled to aband brigade fell back, McClelland threw forward his left to support it. Meanwhile Sherman was doing his best to rally his troops — dashing along the lines, encouraging L. Wallace's division, came up to give some assistance to Stuart's brigade, of Sherman's division, on the extreme left, now in imminent danger of being cut off by Pr