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The Daily Dispatch: May 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], The News. (search)
ost tremendous and decisive of all the battles of the war has been commenced in that awful graveyard of Union and rebel armies, the blood-stained hills and plains of old Virginia. From sources apparently well informed, we learn that the army of Gen. Lee, within the last thirty days, has been swelled from forty-five thousand to ninety thousand men, and that they are nearly all veterans.--What the forces of Gen. Grant are in the aggregate we cannot conjecture; but we are assured that they are ampvis and his followers. In the present exhausted condition of the rebellions States, with all their able-bodied men in the field, and with all their scanty materials of subsistence subject to forced contributions, the moral effect of the defeat of Lee will be a speedy collapse of the rebellion. On the other hand while a victory over Gen. Grant, in Virginia, may revive the sinking fortunes of Davis, nothing else will save him beyond the summer's campaign. Hence we cannot doubt that he has reso