five o'clock
p.m.
On the morning of the last day of September Boutler moved from Deep Valley . Orden 's Corps moved by the Veranda road close to the river , Burns by the new Sales road , and the cavalry by the Derby road to our right . All our forces were now moving in the direction of the rebel Capital . `` Our troops struck the rebel works and attacked them at five o'clock p.m. , and after desperate fighting for hours Fort Harris was taken , with its fifteen guns and all its garrison ; also , the line of works running down to Champ 's farm , with several hundred prisoners . Thus again the work of war had begun in earnest . Silent stood on the side of the fort , and could with his field-glass view the whole line of rebel works now held by them , as well as see the church spires in Richmond . Our cavalry had advanced on our right to within six miles of the Capital .