TENTH GEORGIA BATTALION
Headquarters 10th Ga. Battalion
Camp Near White's Farm, Aug. 18, 1864
Editor Macon Daily Telegraph:
Sir -- At the request of Capt. J.J. Dykes, commanding 10th Ga. Battalion, I send you a list of the casualties of said command in the fight near that place on the 16th inst. from which you see the nature and character of the engagement.
The brigade (Gen. Wright's) was deployed as skirmishers, and the Yankees charged in front of the Battalion and the 64th Ga. Regiment in columns of companies, fifteen or twenty deep, and shot and bayoneted a large number in the trenches before the line, as weak as it was, gave way. Reinforcements coming up, the enemy was driven back, and the works were retaken, and are now occupied by our troops.
Macon Daily Telegraph
Aug. 31, 1864
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COMPANY B, SIXTY-FOURTH GEORGIA
A letter from Mr. A.H. Draper to his father in this city, dated at New Market Heights, August 17th says:
"I have just come out of another fight, and lost all of my company except two men. Our Brigadier General Girardey, was killed with the colors of the regiment in his hand, and when he was killed, I took the colors and carried them through the fight. Our regiment was all captured and killed except fifty three men. . .
We are near Malvern Hill, on the Darby City road, and near New Market Heights. We were deployed in the breastworks in one rank, and our lines were broken by the Yankee line of battle. They came against us in about ten columns deep, and as they were in a thick woods, about thirty yards from our breastworks, we did not get more than one shot after they came in sight, before they were in our works, and then the 2nd and 10th Georgia Battalions had it with the butts of their guns -- for it was between the 2nd and 10th Battalions that the works were broken. The 2nd Battalion lost very heavily
Macon Daily Telegraph
Sept. 1, 1864
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Special correspondence of the Constitutionalist
LETTER FROM ANDERSON'S BRIGADE
Richmond, Va., Aug. 18, 1864
Mssrs. Editors: For the first time during the war, a portion of Anderson's Brigade, the 9th and 11th Ga., fought negroes.
Early in the morning of the 16th these two regiments under Col. R.H. Little were detached and sent to assist in recapturing that portion of our works the enemy had taken from our troops. About one o'clock the fighting commenced and then the charge. In conjunction with Lane's N.C. brigade, after a desperate and close conflict the enemy were driven from the works the extent of their front. Soon as this was done, the 9th and 11th Ga. being on the left of Lane's Brigade, Col. Little, in his usual dashing style, formed them at right angles with the line of works, charge, and succeeded in capturing the entire line. In this last charge, the gallant Capt. Jack Arnold, commanding the 9th Ga., fell badly wounded on top of the works leading the regiment.
Our loss was very slight, that of the enemy was considerable. Our boys fought with renewed energy when they learned they were facing Burnside's pets, the negroes. Only two genuine Yankee negroes were captured as prisoners of war. Their dead dot the field black. Haversacks, knapsacks, blankets, arms and accoutrements, were thickly strewn over the field. The men have as trophies neatly bound bibles, testaments, watches, and portfolios, &c. Prisoners were captured belonging to three corps. They were completely whipped. Anderson and Law's Brigade of Field's Division, and Lane's and Wright's Brigades bore the brunt of the battle.
Grant will have to try some where else if he wants Richmond. He is now skulking under cover of his gunboats.
Augusta, Ga. Daily Constitutionalist
Aug. 26, 1864
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