The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-12-15

| halted and entrenched themselves strong
| ly. They held that position unmolested
during Wednesday night and Thursday
1t is not unlikely that the fighting may
be renewed to-day but we have conf
dence in the ability of our forces to hold
the railroad in any event:
The PortRoyal Yankee papers, in their
report of the fight, ,'admit loss on their
side of between eight hundred and one
thousand killed and wounded. Their
loss in officers was particularly severe
The Fifty fifth Massachusetts (negrol re-
giment lost its colonel and nearly every
company officer. "A detachment of the
One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Penn
sylgania, of about two hundred men.
from Fort Pulaski, lost four officers
killed and thirty five p..yates killed and
wounded. They acknowledge bad de-
feat, but attribute it to overwhelming
numbers. The force was collected from
the different garrisons in the department,
and the expedition planned and com
manded by General Foster himself
Speaking of the Yankees at Milledge-
vile, the Augusta Chronicle says:
The Yankees kicked up quite a fuss in
the State-House. They had mock Le-
gislature, elected speaker, clerk, &c, and
were introducing bills, resolutions, &c,
Of rot xUhoy, H.,
into their midst, almost breathless, with
the announcement, "The Yankees are
coming" when the whole concern alb.
squatulated with the NOSE precipitate
haste and alarm.
This was rot a bad travestie on the
closing hours of the late session.
L. Darlington, Esq, the efficient and
ihdefatigable clerk of the House, sue
ceeded in saving the records of his de-
partment, having removed them oia Sa-
vannah, Thomasville, Albany and Macon,
and thence back to the capitol.
A letter in the Chronicle, giving an
account of the last whipping given Kill
patrick BY Wheeler, says
Fitzpatrick finally made a stand on
Buckhead creek with his whole force,
throwing up rail works across a large
open field, put his artillery in position,
and opened a terrific fire upon our
advance. Nothing daunted, General
Wheeler formed for the charze in three
columns; one on the right tank the
other on the left and third, led by the
General in person, to charge the centre.
Now the scene heightened into the sub
lime just at the back of the field the j.,
creek was bordered on either side by
large marsh, which had TO be crossed
The signal for the charge was given,
and that awful rebel yell, so terrifying to
the Yankees, was raised. Now, like
an eagles swoop, descending, General
Wheeler bore down upon the well formed
lines. In aEothermoment the whole was
in terrible stampede, rushing pellmeh
through the swamps. Here the scene
was absolutely terrific and fearfully
frightful to all but our exulting, enraged |
soldiers. The blue coated devils were
begged in the swamps, and our shouting
columns were right upon their heels |
showering death-knelling missiles aaone |
them Fitzpatrick here had his hat shot |
off his head and lost his glass. The
whole swamp was left with the dead and
wounded wallowing in the mud.
Fitzpatrick made the trip through with
the remnants of his command, and never
stopped more till he fell into the arms of |
Sherman, near Louisville.