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The Daily Dispatch: April 14, 1863., [Electronic resource], Progress of the War. (search)
On the 1st of May the President telegraphs to General McClellan: "Your cell for Parings guns from Washington alarms me, chiefly because is argues indefinite procrastination. Is anything to be done?" On the night of the 3d and the morning of the 4th of May the enemy evacuated Yorktown without loss. One of the witnesses testifies that Gen. McClellan was very much chagrined and mortified at the evacuation, as he had made his preparations to open from his batteries on Monday, the 5th of May. The evacuation was discovered by daylight on the morning of the 4th Between ten and eleven o'clock Gen. Stonemen, with the cavalry and some light horse artillery, started in pursuit. About one o'clock Gen. Hocker, with his division, left York town with orders to support General Stoneman--Gens. Sumner, Heintzelman, and Keyes, also moved out during the day with the whole or portions of their corps. In the battle of Williamsburg which followed, Hocker, after losing 1,700 men, was