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The Daily Dispatch: December 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], Confederate Congress. (search)
ced to a point about one mile from the railroad, and about five miles from Pocotaligo. Here they were met by our forces and speedily, driven back, with some loss. The movement is believed to have been a reconnaissance merely; for, during Tuesday night, the enemy retired to their entrenchments, and could not be seen next morning. At an early hour on Wednesday morning, a force, consisting of the Citadel Cadets, Captain Thomson, and the Forty-seventh Georgia, the whole commanded by Major J. B. White, of the Cadets, were ordered to advance and reconnoitre the enemy's position. This they did in gallant style. The Cadets deployed as skirmishers, and the enemy, surprised, apparently, at the vigor and boldness of the attack, retired some distance before our advancing line. Soon, however, the Yankees were heavily reinforced, and, discovering the numbers that were opposed to them, turned upon our men, who, in turn, were themselves obliged to retire to their works near the railroad. T