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The Daily Dispatch: August 10, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
terday, the general tenor of which was that Generals McCausland and Bradley Johnson had been surprised at Moorefield; Hardy county, and had lost some four-hundred men and several guns. We could not trace this to any reliable source, and think it probable that it is a repetition, in another form, of the Yankee boasts that they had whipped our cavalry at Cumberland. There was nothing new from Petersburg yesterday. The shelling had been pretty much discontinued. It is still reported that Grant is removing troops from his present position, and a citizen who came over yesterday evening says that he is certainly shifting the guns at Battery No. 5; but whether they are being removed or replaced with others of different calibre could not be ascertained. There was a heavy explosion heard yesterday afternoon on the Chesterfield Peninsula, and a heavy smoke was seen shortly after in a straight line east from Dunlop's, on the Petersburg road. It was supposed some of Butler's powder ma
The Daily Dispatch: August 10, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 12 (search)
of narrative and say a word of Meade's position. He is as much the commander of the Army of the Potomac as he ever was. Grant plans and exercises a supervisory control over the army, but to Meade belongs everything of detail. He is entitled to grn directed by him. In battle he puts troops in action and controls their movements; in a word, he commands the army. General Grant is here only because he deems the present campaign the vital one of the war, and wishes to decide on the spot all queeneral-in-chief. "History will record, but newspapers cannot, that on one eventful night during the present campaign Grant's presence saved the army and the nation too; not that General Meade was on the point of committing a blunder unwillingly; not that General Meade was on the point of committing a blunder unwillingly, but his devotion to his country made him loth to risk her last army on what he deemed a chance. Grant assumed the responsibility, and we are still 'On to Richmond.' "
The Daily Dispatch: August 10, 1864., [Electronic resource], Foreign Miscellany. (search)
short time will probably solve the next plans of this army. One thing is certain, and that is, if its commanders keep it where it is through the present and ensuing months, death will do much to thin their ranks. The Confederate cause will be assisted not a little by that determination on their part. It would have been infinitely preferable to us to have had a general engagement with the enemy on the north bank of the Chickahominy, or even on the south bank of the James, immediately after Grant slided over on that side. But as such a trial of conclusions could not be had then, and at those places, we are just as well off now to let disease work its telling effects on the army of Northern men, hemmed in, as they are, on the flat land and swamps of the Appomattox and the James. It is better that our enemies should be nursed first, and then die, than that we should have to hazard our men's lives and use our ammunition in the killing of them. We should not be surprised, however,