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The Daily Dispatch: October 30, 1862., [Electronic resource], Particulars of the fight near Charleston. (search)
Particulars of the fight near Charleston. In the fight at Poeotalige, it appears that the enemy's force consisted of detachments of eight regiments from Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. Each detachment numbered 400 men, so that the attacking force of infantry consisted of about 3,200 men, besides which there was a full battery of field pieces and two boat nowissers. These troops were commanded by brigadier-General Terry. Having effected their landing at an early hour and driven in our pickets, the Yankees advanced rapidly towards the railroad. The Charleston Mercury says: They first encountered our forces about eleven o'clock A. M., and the fighting was kept up with more or less spirit from that time until five o'clock P. M., when the enemy began to waver and finally fall back in disorder, leaving his dead upon the field. The action is described by an eye-witness to have been a second Secessionville affair, in the disparity of the forces enga