Wise's Brigade

Wise's Brigade was hotly engaged with the enemy on the military road Wednesday afternoon in the vicinity of the Lewis House, and suffered a loss of several of its valued officers. Among the killed we hear of Adjutant W.W. Alexander of the 46th Virginia. Adjutant A was the son of James Alexander, Esquire, editor of the Charlottesville Jeffersonian and is represented by those who knew him best as a most worthy and gallant officer. Captain White of the Eastern Shore Virginia and Capt. Rives, the son of the honorable William C. Rives of Albemarle and Captain Cleaveland of Scottsville, Albemarle County, Virginia, were also among the killed. Among the wounded are Lieutenant Bagwell, of General Wise's staff, Lt. Norris of Baltimore. Lt. Wise, the son of the general, is among the missing. He is believed to have been captured.

General Wise's brigade was also engaged yesterday. The command held a strong line of entrenchments across the Plank Road, at its junction with the military or Quaker Road, and in the immediate vicinity Bevill House. The enemy came up in four successive assaults three lines of battle deep during the forenoon, but were each time bloodily repulsed. They retired leaving their dead and wounded in front of our works. A participant in the engagement informs us that the command behaved most gallantly, cheering lustily at each recoil of the Yankees and inviting the invaders to repeat the experiment.

(Petersburg) Daily Express

April 1, 1865

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