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The Daily Dispatch: January 2, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
burning and destroying as he went. Sheridan, having set out with the intention of joining him through Charlottesville, was met at Trevillian's depot, in Louisa, by General Hampton, and utterly routed. He was driven back to the lower country, and, after sustaining another defeat in Charles City, crossed over the river. We must go back a little. Simultaneously with Grant's movements in Spotsylvania, a large land and naval force, under Beast Butler, passed up from Old Point, landed at City Point, took possession of Bermuda Hundred, and endeavored to capture Petersburg and the Port Walthall railroad. In these attempts they were thwarted by the skill and gallantry of General Pickett, who, with vastly inferior forces, succeeded not only in holding Petersburg and the railroad until the arrival of General Beauregard with his forces from North Carolina, but in repulsing them and inflicting a severe loss upon them.--General Pickett added greatly to the renown he had already won at Getty