[The Memoirs of General Ulysses S. Grant Part 5. by Ulysses S. Grant]@TWC D-Link bookThe Memoirs of General Ulysses S. Grant Part 5. CHAPTER LIII 12/22
Upton first drove the enemy, and was then repulsed in turn.
Ayres coming to his support with his brigade (of Griffin's division, Warren's corps), the position was secured and fortified.
There was no more battle during the 14th. This brought our line east of the Court House and running north and south and facing west. During the night of the 14th-15th Lee moved to cover this new front. This left Hancock without an enemy confronting him.
He was brought to the rear of our new centre, ready to be moved in any direction he might be wanted. On the 15th news came from Butler and Averill.
The former reported the capture of the outer works at Drury's Bluff, on the James River, and that his cavalry had cut the railroad and telegraph south of Richmond on the Danville road: and the latter, the destruction of a depot of supplies at Dublin, West Virginia, and the breaking of New River Bridge on the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad.
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