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The Daily Dispatch: May 6, 1863., [Electronic resource], The great victory. (search)
erald has the following editorial: The reports which we publish to-day of the movements of Gen Hooker's army indicate the near approach of the most important, and, perhaps, the decisive struggle of the war. The details of the crossing of the Rappahannock by the army indicate General Hooker's plan of operations. He is moving on an interior line above or west of Fredericksburg, to turn that a squad or two of riflemen, is it not possible that Lee, anticipating this flank movement of Gen. Hooker, may have played upon him the old rebel game of Manassas and Corinth. We are aware of the farch, involving the destruction of all surplus baggage. It is possible, therefore, that while Gen. Hooker has been waiting for the roads to dry his enemy may have given him the slip, though all our ion direct from the field leads to a different conclusion. At all events, this advance of Gen. Hooker is now the all-absorbing question of the day. The hopes and the fears of the country are now