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The Daily Dispatch: May 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], The War News — Grant Quiet — Another Reverse for Butler on the Southside — the battles in Louisiana, &c. (search)
s, was suffering greatly for want of food. As they started front Bermuda Hundreds with only three days rations, they had gotten quite hungry. They were much fatigued Tuesday evening, and ate ashcakes or anything else they could get. They tore the Norfolk railroad up for 400 yards, about ten miles below Petersburg, and bragged exceedingly of what they had done.--They said that it was the most successful land they had ever made, and that if they got back it would be a glorious affair. Gen. Kantz has an accurate map of Dinwiddie, in which every road is laid down, which he regularly reters to. He asked a great many questions about the county — how far it was to Stony creek, Belfield, Lawrenceville, &c. He appears to be a middle aged man. At Wilson's Depot, Speare took off his hat and asked those present if they had ever seen a real live Yankee, and then, with a pompons air, said "If you have not, here is one," and his Adjutant immediately added, "What do you think of him? Do you se
The Daily Dispatch: May 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], The War News — Grant Quiet — Another Reverse for Butler on the Southside — the battles in Louisiana, &c. (search)
iven no instructions to the late cavalry expedition not warranted by the necessities of their situation, sanctioned by the usages of warfare. The photograph copies have been received at the War Department, and there seems to be no reason for doubting their genuineness. How Butler whipped Beauregard's troops. The most laughable dispatch we find in the Northern papers is the following dispatch from Butler to Stanton. It was written before the whipping he got Monday: Beauregard, with a large portion of his command, was left south of the cutting of the railroad by Gen. Kantz. That portion which reached Petersburg under Hill I have whipped to-day, killing and wounding many, and taking many prisoners, after a well contested fight. Butler had also telegraphed to Gen. Grant to be of good cheer; that he had whipped Beauregard at the head of a large body of rebels, near Petersburg, on Saturday, the 7th, and that if the Army of the Potomac did not take Richmond, he would.