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The Daily Dispatch: October 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
seems to have subsided since his last retreat. He came to devastate, not to fight; and having accomplished his infernal business, is wearing laurels which should blast the brain in the head it crowns. An old bear hunter having discovered that nothing annoyed bruin so much as to be bitten behind, trained his dog to attack the animal in the rear, which so effectually occupied him that the hunter could select his position and kill him at pleasure. Mosby works on Sheridan's rear while Early selects his position. Thirty-three Yankees arrived last evening on the Central train, being the unprofitable portion of the spoils arising from Mosby's raid on Duffield station.--They have no greenbacks. Manassas gap railroad. The Yankees have left the Orange and Alexandria railroad and concentrated their force on the Manassas Gap railroad. This puts an end to any probability of their approaching Gordonsville from that direction. From Georgia. The Yankees seem to have
The Daily Dispatch: October 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
d thus the original plans of General Grant be fully executed. New combinations have recently been made by General Grant which have for their object an immediate offensive movement against Lee's army and the rebel capital. These are no less than the transfer of Sheridan's army from the Shenandoah Valley to the position formerly held by General Meade on the line of the Rapid Ann, with headquarters and secondary base at Warrenton. The rebel papers claim that Sheridan has been defeated by Early and compelled to fall back to Harrisonburg. But it is believed that this is untrue, and that the retrograde movement was really in pursuance of instructions from General Grant, who has ordered him to move northward through the gaps in the Blue Ridge into the Luray Valley, and thence, when preparations have been made to supply him, to advance upon Warrenton and endeavor to obtain possession of Gordonsville. It will be observed that the Orange and Alexandria road is already being repaired an