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The Daily Dispatch: August 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
locomotion, and they more than "double- quicked" it from the front. It is stated that the Court of Inquiry which assembled at Grant's headquarters, near City Point, to investigate the causes of the terrible disaster of July 30th, has decided that, on account of the illegality of its appointment, it had no power to examine witnesses or go into the merits of the question. The matter has, therefore, been referred back to General Meade, who, it is said, intends preferring charges against Burnside, in which event a trial of that officer by court-martial will follow. One of the Yankee sanitary commission, named Wilson, who was wounded on board the supply steamer D. A. Brown, on James river, some days ago, by rebel sharpshooters, has died of his injuries. The Yankees term this river firing "guerrilla operations;" say that it has become very annoying, and call for vigorous measures to stop it and punish the offenders. The shelling of Petersburg was almost entirely suspended l