PETERSBURG, December
10, 1864.
About noon yesterday
the First Division of Second Corps of enemy, supporting their cavalry, forced
back our cavalry pickets on the Vaughan road south of the Appomattox and
advanced toward Dinwiddie Court-House. To-day our cavalry, re-enforced by
infantry, drove them back across Hatcher's Run, capturing a few prisoners, and
re-established our lines. General Longstreet made a reconnaissance of enemy's
lines to-day on north side of James River as far as New Market Heights, driving
in their pickets, and found them fortified along the whole distance.
R. E. LEE.
Hon. J. A. SEDDON, Secretary of War.
SOURCE: The
War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and
Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 42, Part 1 (Serial No. 87), p. 855
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