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The Daily Dispatch: January 2, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
aving attempted to capture the artillery of General Lee's army at Frederick's Hall, and been drivenxpedition, the object of which was to overwhelm Lee in the upper country and pass on over his body ithstanding a great inferiority of numbers, General Lee hastened to attack him. The battle lasted te of march, having been utterly unable to drive Lee out of his way. He lost, according to the Washiy, at the very time that he was retiring before Lee; while the latter, following him up, drove him rant had arrived at Cold Harbor, where he found Lee again facing him. Here he sustained another trekinridge having been withdrawn to reinforce General Lee, the Valley was left comparatively unprotecat least twenty thousand, under Sheridan, while Lee was still facing Grant in Spotsylvania, passed d the local troops, under the command of Colonel Curtis Lee, displayed, on this occasion, a most commy were parts of Grant's grand plan to manœuvre Lee out of his position after he had failed to do i[1 more...]
The Daily Dispatch: January 2, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
fort, and drove out our black troops with heavy loss. The remnants of them were re-embarked, but the fleet remained at anchor, and the men-of-war opened their fire again upon the fort and the rebel troops. It was known in the fleet that Lee had sent two divisions of his best troops to Bragg. It was also known that Hardee was hurrying up from Savannah under orders to save Wilmington. The Tribune has the following editorial comment on this disaster to Butler's expedition: Diawning gap. The force under General Butler, which landed on the Fort Fisher peninsula, was notoriously inadequate to contend with the combined forces under Bragg. There were at Wilmington not merely the usual garrison, but the two divisions which Lee sent down when the sailing of Porter's fleet was known.--These troops had time to arrive long before the fleet, which had buffeted the Atlantic storms for a week, and which has concentrated at last with weakened numbers and strength. Reckoning, t
The Daily Dispatch: January 2, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
by burning buildings in the vicinity. The Brooklyn ran down abreast the fort and opened on it, keeping up the fire for over an hour. Not a reply came from Fort Fisher. To-day the fleet did not engage in action. The iron-clads and large wooden vessels were employed taking in coal and ammunition preparatory to renewing the fight to-morrow. It is the intention of Admiral Porter to bombard the works until something definite and satisfactory shall be accomplished. Miscellaneous. Admiral Lee telegraphs (from Florence on the 27th) to the Navy Department that he stopped Hood's crossing the river below Muscle shoals, but Hood had a bridge higher up, where he could not get at him, and was crossing. Supplies had reached Chickasaw, on the Tennessee, for General Thomas's army, and the railroad to Corinth was in our possession, so that Hood cannot get supplies by that route. Burbridge, in his official report of his raid, says: "The expedition was entirely successful, and will b