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The Daily Dispatch: July 12, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
e river at Trent's Reach, are increasing them by sinking stones and driving piles. It may be that they apprehend the approach of a fleet of Confederate rams, and seek by this means to prevent such an occurrence. The Weldon railroad. On Wednesday, the 29th of June, the Sixth Federal Army Corps, General Wright commanding, accompanied by Sheridan, with two brigades of cavalry, moved down to Reams's station, on the Petersburg and Weldon railroad, for the purpose of relieving Wilson and Kantz from their unpleasant situation. They were, however, too late to be of any service, for the raiders had been routed and were Hying in every direction. Determined not to have their march for nothing, they halted and proceeded to fortify the place. They went to work industriously, and in fifteen or sixteen hours had erected a series of most formidable breast works, which display considerable engineering skill. On Thursday morning at three o'clock scouts brought in a report that the "rebels
The Daily Dispatch: July 12, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
there his army was to be starved out. Nothing in the world was so easy as to take Richmond, demolish Lee's army, and crush the rebellion on paper; but when it came to be tried, this notable scheme failed entirely in the execution. Hunter has been driven off, Lynchburg has not been taker, Petersburg is safe, Grant has lost 150,000 men, and is in a position where he is likely to lose as many more, if he will stay till the first of October; Sheridan has been beaten within an inch of his life, Kantz and Wilson have lost all their artillery, all the negroes, spoons, and other plunder they had in possession, three thousand horses, thousands of small arms, untold amounts of stores and baggage, and have gained nothing but the reputation of the thieves and felons which they really are. In a word, the quadrilateral's one hundred and forty-fifth scheme for subduing the rebels has proved a glorious failure. The web which was to encircle the "devoted city" has been brushed away, without leaving