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The Daily Dispatch: October 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
rce was about six thousand, as near as we could estimate. We are in hot pursuit. John Echols, Brigadier-General." The following is the dispatch of General Lee to the War Department: "Headquarters Army Northern Virginia," October 4, 1864. "Hon. Secretary of War: "General Breckinridge reports that the enemyarently in the direction of Sandy river, leaving most of their dead and wounded in our hands. "He is pursuing them. "All of our troops behaved well. "R. E. Lee." The party which started for Wytheville got as far as "Tazewell Courthouse, and have not been heard from since.--The defeat of Burbridge, coupled wittting supplies through Cumberland gap, which would have been most advantageous to the enemy, and which would have greatly facilitated the grand plan of flanking General Lee, by way of the south side, and cutting the roads leading south from Richmond. The advance of General Price into Missouri. If General Price continues h
The Daily Dispatch: October 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], Two days later from the North. (search)
d, by a telegram from Washington, that after careful inquiry it cannot be ascertained that any importance is attached, in official circles, to the rumored peace propositions from Georgia. The denial is mildly stated, but when done into plain English it means that all the stories relating to peace negotiations in Georgia are false. Farragut — attack on Mobile abandoned. Admiral Farragut is about to be transferred to the command of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, and Admiral Lee is to succeed Farragut in command of the fleet in Mobile bay. From these changes, we infer that the attack on Mobile is to be abandoned — at least for the present. Later from Missouri The New York Herald of the 1st contains the following dispatch: St. Louis, September 30.--The rebels were driven back at Pilot Knob with great slaughter, and forced to retreat. One brigade of General Smith's forces is now stationed at Wetemac bridge, a few miles below Jefferson barracks,