The Camden daily journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1864-1864, 1864-08-31
Tlse Battle 1T Petersburg


=. :. 'E'Aee Battle ut EsclcrsburE
A correspondent Of the Richmond D;putsA
| writes to that paper account Of the battle of
Friday, from which We extract the following re-
! ferring to the action of Hagood's brigade.
! ]Iasood's Is. c. brigade, nothing. dauntcd,
! actually pressed on amid that heavy fire of shot
and shell, and reached the c,,cmy's works.
when General II. reached the works, lie found
that one Of his colonrls had surrendered his
regiment, Hf his hriyadc, without consultinr
him. at once rcpu'liatinG. the act of his sub.
| ordinate, he ordered the men to fire and then
to save themselves his supports on the right
and left having long since fallen back. General
H. himself escaped, though two horses were
killed under him whilst .retrcating.
The engagement lasted about two hours,
: ending about o'clock, and has not been re-.
, ncvcd since that honr
1t was asteItaincd, beyond all Doubt Ly the
! attack that the whole of tile 5tll and 9th CORDS
were masScd on the railroad, and also two d.
visions of the I'd. Prisoners say that Grant
and Meade werc both present ut the fclt.A
! The enemy we're doubtless expecting an attack,
:lMtl ltl We're advantagco,'sly posted on both sides
OF The ra'iroad with their ares fronting lis ;
hence Malone found no flank tn strike.
Some carillnG critics will doubtless take oc-
cas'on to animadvcrt upon tn;s failure. Tn or
DER ti'at the failure may he perfectly understood
| will give tie reason which, in MY iu;Ipuent
I'D to it, In The first ..:;cc, the enemy wcrc
present III Overwhelmingly strong force when
compared with our ,umcrs: In tho second
, place, they. we're admirably posted and very
! strongly fortified artiliciulIy. In the third
place, to the eternal discrcdit Of one of our
bv@adcs be it said that they broke and ran
ard refused to hc rallied hy their gallant COM
| I'amlcr, Though he did NIL tliui :, nn,, could
90. And finally, If the cI,i,,y were not ar
rrEc1 Q: our attack, ii was nht har::,,sc tire
plan and 11lnr were nor huoiv!., even Il, the
very urtilns OF Ictcr;fr:c. NluSc f.a!t it
was that these matters leaked slt do not
| know; but | know that eighteen llonrS before
the t'ne' place and character Of the FIGHT were
on Aic l'ps OF all, soldiers and citizens. Our
loss WILL think, foot up about ,OOQ, the
greater part OF which was borne by Harris
Mississippi and Hagood'a Sontl, Carolina brio
AIDES, both OF which acted with cc,,sp;cuous
galiantry .t-r 80 "
| GEORGE n. SAUNDERS CoUrys,,1p
A lady furnishes the following
concerning George N. Sanders who
figured SO prominently in the late
Clay, Holcombe and Greeley Peace
Conferences: ''' :"
He started in life. as IN editor ofa
newspaper in Kentucliy;;S think it
was called the Mayfower, and had
many lady PATRONS and contributors,
among whom wasMiss Reid, i, dauoh.
ter Of Capt. Reid, of the ArmstroDcl
who also designed the present Uni.
ted States flag. Saunders courtsbin
was as singular as his movements
generally are. lie was pleased with
Miss Rcid's style of writing and
opened correspondence with her
She then sent him her slipper, also
sash, marked the size of her waist
both ofwhich he appeared to admire
as he visited her once and married
| her