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1864.] Just as evening was closing in a Georgia brigade, with two other regiments, made a detour, and fell furiously upon two brigades of the enemy, and drove them back in headlong rout for a mile and a half, capturing their two generals and many prisoners.

The artillery, as on the previous day, had been little used on either side, the work being done at short range with the rifle, the loss being much heavier among the thick masses of the Northerners than in the thinner lines of the Confederates.

Grant had failed in his efforts to turn Lee's right and to accomplish his direct advance; he therefore changed his base and moved his army round toward Spottsylvania.
Lee soon perceived his object, and succeeded in carrying his army to Spottsylvania before the Federals reached it.
On the afternoon of Monday the 9th, there was heavy fighting, and on the 10th another pitched battle took place.

This time the ground was more open, and the artillery was employed with terrible effect on both sides.
It ended, however, as the previous battles had done, by the Confederates holding their ground.
Upon the next day there was but little fighting.