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The Daily Dispatch: May 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
hments, extending across the country from the James to the Appomattox river, in the neighborhood of Bermuda Hundreds, and nothing of importance has occurred since the battle of Monday last. Here they will doubtless be held in check until such time as they shall decide upon some other plan of operations against Richmond. Their boasted siege and occupation of Petersburg has not yet taken place, and, altogether, Beast Butler has thus far found the Southside quite as hard a road to travel as McClellan did the route by way of the Peninsula. The only difference is that the plans of the first named doughty General have been discomfited much more speedily than were those of the latter. Although the public desire for news from the other side of James river is intense, it is a matter of much difficulty to obtain any definite accounts from that quarter, notwithstanding its proximity to the capital.--We know that the Yankees, under a pressure of adverse circumstances, have abandoned the l
The Daily Dispatch: May 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], The battle of the Wilderness. (search)
much liquor, and that the war on the part of the North is conducted as if it were a matter of frolic and compact. Our lines were withdrawn a few hundred yards last night, and from the enemy's immediate front, for the purpose of improving their position. Not understanding exactly what the movement meant, Grant advanced with heavy force this morning at half-past 10 o'clock, but he seen discovered where the Confederate troops were, He was driven back with ease, and now at sunset is cowering behind his entrenchments in the Wilderness. His troops have not done as well as they did under McClellan, Burnside, or even Hooker. The Confederates, on the contrary, never fought better--Gen. Lee had caused it to be circulated among them some days ago that they must not think of defeat as possible; it was a thing not to be even dreamed of. Nobly have his invincible regions responded to the call of their great chief. Oh, that we may ever have such a leader and such an army! Sallust.