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The Daily Dispatch: June 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ns of yesterday were confined to skirmishing at different points along the lines. There is no doubt of the fact that Grant is endeavoring to make his way to the Peninsula, in order to connect with his base of supplies at the White House. Tulsed with considerable slaughter of their The enemy are evidently shifting ground war is the York river road, and Grant awaiting Butler's presence in order renew the butchery. The roads are quite dry, and the weather exceedingly warm. Grant is busy fortifying and his entrenchments are in full view of our lines. X From the Southside. It having been satisfactorily ascertained that the enemy was withdrawing his forces from Bermuda Hundred Neor, our artillery opey the gunboats in the James. The shelling was kept up vigorously for about an hour. It is Butler's purpose to reinforce Grant by sending troops to Fortress Monroe, and thence up the York river to the White House; but it is doubtful whether the pos
The Daily Dispatch: June 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
riation. There were rumors on the street yesterday that the enemy had evacuated Bermuda Hundred and gone to reinforce Grant at the White House. What truth there was in these rumors we have, thus far, been unable to learn. But it seems certain that Grant had determined to make the White House the base of his operations against this city, and that he expected to take it. How far his views may be changed by the publication of his plans, remains to be seen. After the terrible ordeal he has gh, he can hardly expect to find a Vicksburg in Richmond. There is this striking difference between the two situations. Grant, according to Seward's letter to Adams, had 100,000 men at Vicksburg, and he operated against one fourth of his number. low time for doing much damage. Upon the whole, our prospects seem very fair, so far as a siege is concerned, and should Grant prefer to contest the possession of the place in a pitched battle, we feel no apprehension whatever for the issue. In th
The Daily Dispatch: June 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Yankee letters. (search)
We glean some points of interest from the private letters found upon R B Francis, the correspondent of the New York World, who was captured on Sunday at Tunstall's Station. These letters are dated the 23rd of May, and the writers all agree that Grant's base of supplies is to be the White House. One, writing from Hanover Town, says--"I do not anticipate any fighting for a day or two, although we may at any time find the enemy in our front. Breckinridge, with a division of 12,000 men, is at Hacomplishing exactly what it is intended for, and if Lee attempts to hold Richmond and allow himself to be bestowed, he will lose his whole army" The only important developments in this correspondence consist in the admission of the facts that Grant is to make the White House his base of supplies, that he contemplates a siege of Richmond, and that their losses have been terrible. These, however, indicate with sufficient clearness the future plan of the campaign on the part of the Yankee arm
The Daily Dispatch: June 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Yankee letters. (search)
Gen Lee and the army. The confidence felt by our whole population in the brave army which stands between us and Grant's myrmidons was never more conspicuously displayed than yesterday, when it was thought that a general battle was in progress. Not a man seemed to doubt how it would terminate. There was no fear and scarcely any excitement.--That the defeat of the enemy was to be the result of a battle, seemed to be regarded as certain. The Grant could make his way into the city through Gen. Lee's army, no man appeared to consider within the range of possibility. The army have the same confidence in themselves, and faith in their commander. It must be a much larger force than Grant commands, and a much greater General than stands in his shoes, the can overcome such a force, led by such a General. The confidence in Lee and his army is not confined to the ranks of that army and to our fellow citizens. It is as extensive as the Confederacy itself. It pervades every neigh
The Daily Dispatch: June 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
Later from the North. A gentleman who has seen a New York Tribune of May 28th, has kindly furnished us with some items of news from its columns. Gold was quoted at 186½ The war news was of no great importance, and the public mind at the North awaited with anxiety the result of the strategic movements of Grant. A Washington correspondent says that Fredericksburg has not been evacuated, but that all the Government stores have been removed from there. It is added that Mosby's "guerillas" have occupied the last ten days in destroying all the bridges and blockhouses erected by the Yankees between Union Mills and the Rapidan. Joshua R. Giddings, the famous (or infamous) abolition agitator, is dead. We should be pleased to record the demise of any number of his co-workers in evil.
The Daily Dispatch: June 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
Grant's losses. A contemporary says Grant lost more men on the 12th than Napoleon lost in the battle of Waterloo. In the 9th volume of his memoirs, dictated aGrant lost more men on the 12th than Napoleon lost in the battle of Waterloo. In the 9th volume of his memoirs, dictated at St. Helena to Gen Gourgand, Napoleon says the loss of the French army, from the opening of the campaign to the gates of Paris, was 41,000 men. This statement embraportion of wounded to killed is five to one. If this estimate be correct, then Grant must have lost 42,000 men on that day alone. This estimate, however, is as evi00 is too low. The probability is that truth lies in the middle — that is, that Grant's actual loss was about 20,000. This estimate agrees with all the accounts we ason is obvious, Napoleon had no heavy fortifications in his immediate rear, at Grant had. But the indisposition of Grant's troops to attack our men in their entrencGrant's troops to attack our men in their entrenchments, since the lesson taught them on that day, tells the tale as intelligibly as a headlong flight and an over whelming pursuit could have done. The campaign of