The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-10-11
More About the Battle OF
.-l .a Friday. - lI

The Herald's Washington special says.
intelligence has been received, that Sheri'
dan has won another victory over Long
street, the successor of Early, but no de.
tails are given. az - J.,
New YoaK, Oct. 8.-The Worlds Tenth
corps correspondent has sent the following
account of the affair on Friday last. The
point at which the enemy first made his ap.
pearance was near the intersection of the
Darbytown and Whitetavern roads, which
was held by two brigades Of cavalry, one of
which under the command of Colonel
West, was deployed across the Darbytown
road, while the other under Col Spear was
deployed parallel to it, and across the
Whitetavern road, covering the approach
from this direction. The enemy when first
seen was coming across the country from
Charles city road, and moving toward the
right flank of Col West. The Dol. changed
bis front hastily so as to form lineparallel
with the road and facing the enemy. He had
hardly effected this, and sheltered his men
behind low hedge skirting the road when
the enemy in overwhelming numbers dashed
on him, and on the command of Colonel
Spears in almost simultaneous charges. The
men fired steadily, but could not stand the
rushing masses opposed to them. 1t was
evident they must retreat, so the command
was given, and they moved of down the
Darbytown road Suddenly they We're
checked in this direction. The enemy hav
ing outaanked Spears, had possession OF
this avenue Of retreat.
As there was one more chance across the
country, they went around without organ
ization. The batteries Of the 4th Wiscon-
sin, and the lst New York, which fought
bravely. moved of in the same direction,
taking blind wood road. They had not
gone far, however, when the forward piece
mired, this stopped the RENAL ider, and on
this spot they were captured, eight guns in
sll when the enemy, who had followed
closely, soon after, yeached them. The
enemy having driven the cavalry before
them now ceased the pursuit, and hurried
toward the unprotected flank of the 10th
corps, which was held by the invincibls old
LIST, or Terry's division.
The enemy flushed with bis easily gain
ed victory, moved towards this little band
with ell the confidence of victory. The
brunt of his attack was directe towards the
abbatis of the End Brigade He might
better have chosen almost any other point,
for half of these troops being armed with
repeating rifles, made hasty records in the
rebel ranks moving towards them steadily
He exhibited determination to force the
position at any cost, but the uuerring vol
canic fire arm more than equaliZed the
game. Onward they pushed and more dense
grew tbs FIRE, still they advanced uutil
within about 100 PAGES of orr crouching
death dealers; then sigus of weakness began
to manifest itself in their ranks. They
found that to advance in the face of tibet
Gre was simply marching to death. In
short there was nothing for them but to
stink away as best they could, and stink
away they did. Not satisfied With the pun
ishuient he inflicted, Terry at once prepared
to follow up his advantage, and as our lines
approached the enemy, It became evident
that he was Richmond bound. Although
hopes of overtaking him were fruitlsss, still
ont adTanee was pressed on until darkness
iuterfered. Then just as Rind's brigade
had reached within hslfs mile of the OAR
bytowu road, the order was issued to return
within our defences. In the advance VIC
picked up quite number Of prisoners
strsgglers and men who waited behind Il
desert. These with our captures before ouv
works swelled our list Of captures t. GONE
400. Genera. Lee commanded in person
and had evidently determined to make :
heavy impression. Our loss in men has
been very small but the eaemy has suffered
terribly. Their prisoners report Genera
Gregg among their killed. They brough,
two divisions into action, one under Gen
Field and sproyisional division under Hoke