The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-03-30
FIR on PETERSBURG.

| FROM PETERSBURG.
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PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA,
March 25, 1865, 10 P. N.
wrote you, this morning, short &C.
count Of the engagement near the city.
Fort Steadman was the name Of the
principal battery captured by us. We
spiked many guns and brought Eve
mortar pieces, in safety, to our lines
The most terrific fire Of the war was
concentrated by the enemy on this cap
tured fort. Enflading fires from the
right and left, together with continuous
volleys from the front, poured upon it,
SO that We were obliged to give it up
Had the forts to the right and to the left
Of Fort Steadman been taken also,-
| which would have been done but for the
failure on. the part Of co operating
forces to support the skirmishers, the
| success of the day would have been
quite different.
This evening, fiagof truce was hoist.
cd, and the enemy sent over our dead
and wounded who were left in their
hands. Our total loss, so far as haye
been able to learn, must have been about
eight hundred in killed, wounded and
captured: Killed, 100; wounded, 400,
and captured, some 2SO-most of these
were captured in the fort when we gave
it up. 1t is said that most of our dead
were killed in the fort after surrender
ing. .
The loss of the enemy is not known,
but is believed to be heavy. We cap
tured about twenty officers and little
over five hundred men.
Brigadicr- General William Terry, OF.
G0rdon's division, was severely wounded
in the thigh; Captain c. d. Burkes, of
company 3, Sixsieth Georgia regiment,
was badly wounded-supposed NOR
tally-and fell into the hands of the
enemy; Adjutant Clayton, Twelfth Geor-
gia battalion light artillery, was killed
private lsham Morris, company A, Twen>
ty-first Virginia regiment, killed; Ser
geant Henry Fuqua, company G, Forty
second Virginia regiment, killed; Ser
geant - Shanks, company B, Forty
second Virgi regiment, severely
wounded through shoulder; Sergeant
r. I. Whitehead, company ], Forty
second Virginia regiment, severe flesh
wound in thigh.
Gordon'S division suffered more than
any other 1t made the first assault,
and the works taken were carried by
the division sharpshooters.
This evening, there has been heavy
firing on our right. No particulars re
ceivcd.
All is now. quiet. Scarce a picket
shot is fired. A. I.
SUNDAY MORNING. March 26, 1865.
About one hundred prisoners have
just been received at the military
prison, from the right. The enemy
charged upon, and captured, our picket
line, for some distance, in the vicinity of
BURGESS mill. Early this morning, all
was quiet, and the enemy in possession
Of the picket lines. This was the amount
of the engagement. We lost few pri-
soners-the pickets. Casualties were
few. A. Z.
PETERSBURG, Va, March %, 1866.
In my letter of the 25th, l stated that
the works of the enemy were first car
ried by the sharpshooters of Gordon's
division. must correct this by stating
that this was not done by those of this
division alone, but by the sharpshooters
of the corps.
The number Of prisoners taken is
larger than | have heretofore reported,
and, in all, amounts to near one thou
sand. Our loss in captured, too, is larger
than at first reported. Lieutenant
Colonel Mosely, of the Twenty first
Virginia regiment. was captured. Ore
of the officers who CAME over under the
flag of truce stated that he was takep in
the fort unhurt, but perfectly exhausted.
The picket firing along the lines is
much more regular at night, since the
25th, than before, though during the day
the pickets are as friendly as ever, and
do not shoot at all.
hear that yesterday morning, our
troops on the right charged upon the
picket lines captured irony us on Satur-
day, near BURGESS mill, dnd recaptured
the entire line.
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