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The Daily Dispatch: August 10, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
e Seventeenth corps, was two thousand one hundred and forty-two. The other divisions of the Seventeenth corps repulsed six assaults of the enemy before they fell back, and which will swell the rebel loss in killed to at least three thousand. The latest report states we buried over three thousand two hundred rebels, killed in this fight. There were captured from the enemy, in this battle, eighteen stands of colors and five thousand stands of arms. "By order of Major-General Thomas. "W. D. Whipple, Assistant Adjutant-General." In the fight of the 20th, it seems, in front of one Yankee corps alone, five hundred and sixty-three rebels were buried by the Yankees, and the rebels were permitted to bury two hundred and fifty more; so that in front of that corps alone, on that day, eight hundred an thirteen rebels were killed. The second division of the Fourth corps buried three hundred more — total for that day, one thousand and thirteen killed.. There was no report from the F