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The Daily Dispatch: August 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
six hundred yards in our front, where the skirmishing continues almost all the time. "We have done an immense deal of hard service, the hardest I have ever seen, and certainly have inflicted very heavy losses upon the enemy. We were engaged in the handsomest thing I have ever witnessed on last Saturday, the 6th instant. General Bates's division, was thrown out at almost right angles with our main line of works — the line thus thrown out leaving the main line of works nearly opposite East Point, and running westwardly towards the river. This line was a succession of rificpits, placed about ten feet apart, and capable of holding eight men each. They were then brushed and concealed so as to present to the view from the front only the appearance of an ordinary skirmish line. My regiment (Thirty-seventh Georgia) happened to be placed at a very prominent part of this line. At about eleven o'clock A. M., after considerable desultory skirmishing, the enemy assaulted us with only a h