The number of prisoners captured yesterday by General Smith
was only about five hundred, not twenty-five hundred as reported. The works
were carried by storm by colored troops, but they couldn't have taken them if
the forts had been fully garrisoned, by veterans instead of citizens. We have
remained behind our works all day; brisk skirmishing in front, and cannonading
towards Petersburg; gunboats have thrown a few shells into the enemy's lines. I
got letters from home to-night; all well there.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 84-5
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