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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 59 59 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 56 56 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 36 34 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 29 29 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 27 27 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 25 25 Browse Search
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant 24 24 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 24 24 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: May 25, 1863., [Electronic resource] 22 0 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1 22 22 Browse Search
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opposite side of an immense field of some four hundred acres. Haiting a few moments to allow the Confederates to form in their respective positions, a portion of Van Dorn's and Huggles's divisions opened the ball. A Louisland battery of six guns, under command of Feilx Q. Robinson, of Texas, was thrown forward in the field, and fn our extreme right, so as to get in the rear of the Federals, and entriely surround them. But owing to the disfance around, or the suddeness of the attack by Van-Dorn, he was not in position in time and the grand design failed. We, however, drove the enemy back in confusion, capturing all their knapsacks, loose clothing, and mat, only some ten or twelve killed and forty or fifty wounded. Among the latter are Major Ingram (mortally) and Captain Leftwitch, both of the staff of General Van- Dorn. That of the enemy is doubtless much greater, but both their wounded and dead were, as far as possible, carried away with them. Being concealed in the woods,
near the stern; the Gen. Price, Captain T. Hawthorne, followed next, and also butted the St. Louis in the stern, knocking away her rudder and stern post. The Van-Dorn, Captain Fulkerson, came up lost. The Bragg had her chain shot away, and dropped back. The Sumter was surrounded by three gunboats, which, for the space of fier. Some of the enemy's boats were almost alongside the Sumter in the engagement, yet she was not seriously disabled, though her cabin was almost riddled. The Van-Dorn had a special engegement with the mortar boat, and it is believed seriously damaged her. Indeed, it is reported that the mortar boat has since sunk. Some of the enemy's balls penetrated as much as six feet into our boats, yet so far as their serviceable capacity is concerned, they were uninjured — The Van- Dorn's upper works were almost riddled. A spy glass was shot out of the hands of her Captain. There was no damage done to the hulls or machinery of our boats. Gen. Thompson was on