The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1864-08-12
Richmond (Jsaas y Correspondents Of The London
Times.
A British Account Of the Battles of Cold
n Harbor, Written in .Richmond


E Harbor, Written in Richmond
Oufhe Let insty Geperal Lee, saspectine
4GraD would attempt to repeat what is!
known among the Confederates as his
"crab movement" began to maneuvre for
position. Kershaw's and Hoke's division,
of Anderson,s. corps lthe latter temporari.
ly attached to the corps), were sent to the
right, to the old battle fields Of Gaines
Mill and Cold Harbor, with orders to oc7
cupy the eminences in that lquarter.---s
They attacked the enemy in the front, and
rand drove them to their entrenchments.-
breckenridge and Mahoue, Of Hills corps,
l were equally suocessfulin, gaining certain
advantageous positions. Iu the afternoon
!, The, enemy attacked Heth, and were repuI-
Lsed by Cookies and Kirklauds sbrigades,
also of Hills corps. Ia the meantime a
% ioree of infantry was pushed from .the
4 White House up to Tunstall station, ON the
i iYetk River Railway, lon the Confederate
fright. bsIt nhas since been ascertainsd that
,bthis force constituted a part of Buffers
army, the greater partnof which has alrea-
Ejoined Grant. bssA ,1adI bm a0at3q ,
III Oprthe morning of the I'd it was discov-
, cred that Grant had edged away to the
right, as Leo had expected he would do.
i IA d bod not gone far, ehowever,b for Lee
4hngged his lines, too closely for him to
bmove except uLder cover of darkness. a
K The Confederalessw were put in motion on
o. parallel line, while Early, commanding
i Ewell's corps (Ewell5 being sick,) swung
Reupd late 10 the afternoons and took 1.-THE
enemy iu flank, drove him from two lines
1 of Entertainments, took seven buudred
prisoners, and inflicted a heavy loss in
killed and wounded, his ownHioss being
triaipg. Gordon, who has,ebeen made a
,lMajor General for his gallantry at the
IWiiderness aud Spottsylvania, was con-
4 spieuous for good behaviour on this occa-
sion. Night puta stop to the conflict
! Meanwhile Breckinridge, supported by
Wilcox, proceeded under orders to attack
the enemy on Turkey Hill, on the ex-
!. IRENE right, y and drove him from it after
"a short com bat; thus securing verystrong
and important positiou,g which 'the Fede-
I. rails Jhad already occupied. 90 This hill
commands the approaches from the north
.kandmeust. to the military bridges which
Mcclellan threw over the Chickahon,iny
Itiwas, evident that Grant was aiming for
! these bridges, consequently General Lee
;, continued toaulbve his army to the right
on the evening Of the I'd, until he had
tthrowngit right across Grants. path, where
theahtter supposed he had comparatively
10 small force.cgp Aal-i .oy psG3 "a :.
DIS Great must have been Grants surprise,
therefore, at haf-past four O'Clock on the
morning IF the Sd, whenbe moved against
the Confederates, to find them 10 greater
force where,he expected .toiind them weak.
er, and standing firmly up to their work
hehiod some rude abreastwork which they
had thrown upon the precedipga night
His assault extended along the entire line,
except on the extreme right, and was 2ev-
e,ywhere repulsed with heavy loss. 1t
was not repca. Led on the left Until near the
close of the battle, when IL was again re-
pulsed, The bief attack was made upon
Kersbaw' s;rField'sa and H6ke's divisions
of Auderson's corfsnin the centre, and
npon Breckinridge's and Mahone's divi-
sions of Hills corps next on their right,
the heaviest and most determined assaults
being directed against Kershaw and Hoke
and the left of Breckenridge. 19I1s y
5.uIn many respectsqthe battle was q, rope
tition OF that of the 18th of May, at Spott-
sylyania Court House While he kept
up threatening attitude along the whole
line, Grant nassed very heavy force
and hurled them, again and again, with
tremendous violence,g against "a single
point. For few minutes he broke over
the breastworks at salient on Breckin.
ridges left, and captured three guns but
in less time than 10 takes me to narrate
the circumstances, Gen. Finnegan rushed
into the breach with his Florldians and
swept the enemy oat, retook the guns,
which they had finished loading, and turn.
cd them upon their flying columns.
Seven different assaults were made
against 'Kershaw's front, each one Of
which, as were all those made against
! Field, Hoke and Breckenridge, was re-
pulsed with slaughter that has no paral-
ell in the war, except at Spottsylvania.-
1t is true that each succeeding assault was
} feebler than the one that succeeded it,
but the Federals came near enough each
time for the Confederate marksmeD to cut
them down ia wide blue swathes stretch
; ing far across the field. The slaughter
; was sufficient, one would think, to satisfy
even Grants thirst for blood. The bat
tie ragged with great violence until half
past ten O'Clock, A. Must five ours
when the Federals retired, beaten at all
points, and took shelter behind their en-
trenchmehts near at HIND '.'' ',.'" L'2'
But. few prisoners we're lost or taken on
either side. The loss sustained by Grant
in killed and wounded is estimated at fif-
teen Thousand men. The loss estimated
by the Confederates does not reach one
F thousand. :" AT first l was disposed to dis
credit the latter report, but visit to the
hospitals, to the medical director Of the ar