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The Daily Dispatch: May 2, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Fredericksburg. (search)
rks. He pursued them after repulsing them. Gen. Wilcox holds Banks's Ford. I could not ascertain the number of Mahone's killed and wounded. The fight occurred at Chancellorsville, about four miles from Ely's Ford. The Yankee's were reported to be at Spotsylvania C. H., 10 miles southwest from Chancellorsville. The Court-House is twelve miles almost due west from Fredericksburg. No firing heard up to this hour to-day. Stuart was skirmishing all day yesterday. All the indications point above Fredericksburg as the real routs of Hooker in his "On to Richmond" He has two roads out to Banks's ford, where Wilcox is ready to receive him. No Yankees yet reported in Fredericksburg. Barksdale's men are still there. The Yankees are preparing earthworks for guns near Pratt's. Their line extends from Bernard's to Alsop's, opposite Hamilton's Crossing. Our pickets and their's are scarcely 200 Yards apart. One of our shells yesterday scattered a party of officers near Pratt's.
The Daily Dispatch: May 2, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Fredericksburg. (search)
e triumphs that await our arms in the powerful conflicts which are no doubt soon to follow in the field. The immane armies of the enemy and the impa of the Northern people, with slideway in the prosecution of the war for our subjugation, and the possession of our property, made it impossible for him to the policy of simply waiting and watching while we starved. They indeed had no idea that a people living in a land of fortified and abundance could be starved out. The demonstration by Hooker at Fredericksburg, already eed in our papers, shows that there is to be an active campaign. While we write a great battle may be progressing there. The near approach of the termination of the time of enlistment of a large part of the Yankee army (much more efficient than the new leviss) make it necessary that fighting should not be delayed unnecessarily, and this may have hurried up the movement at Fredericksburg. With no knowledge about our force on the Rappahannock, but, nevert