Posted on 08/23/2024 6:53:44 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Sunday, Aug. 21.
Our losses at the fight at the Weldon Railroad, on Friday afternoon, were greater than heretofore reported.
The number of prisoners taken by the rebels is now put down at 1,500.
It seems that our troops were surprised, many of them being in their shelter-tents at the time, trying to escape the heavy rain that had been falling for several hours previously.
The rebels first appeared about noon on the right of the road, in front of the Third Division of the Fifth Corps, but this was evidently a feint, or for the purpose of feeling our lines.
About three o'clock in the afternoon they charged in heavy force, between the Fifth and Sixth Corps, and succeeded in turning the flank of the former, capturing a large number of prisoners.
This part of our line was forced back some distance, when the Ninth Corps, which had been relieved the night previous by a part of the Second Corps, came up to the field and opened a fire, checking the advance of the rebels, and taking a few prisoners.
A heavy column of the rebels at the same time, charged on the left of our line, west of the railroad, held by the Second Division, Gen. AYRES, which they broke, and here they also took five or six hundred prisoners of the Regular Brigade.
This brigade is commanded by Colonel or General HAYS, who is believed to be a prisoner, as he cannot be found.
Our whole line was thus forced back with heavy loss in killed and wounded. The enemy, however, suffered worse than we did in this particular, his men lying thick all over the field.
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