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The Daily Dispatch: December 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], Confederate Congress. (search)
The War news. It was reported yesterday that Grant, during the preceding night, had thrown a considerable body of troops across to the north bank of the James, below Varina. Whatever may be the object of this movement, it was not developed yesterday, the day, on this side of the river, passing off, like many of its predecessors, in unbroken quiet. During the morning, a very brisk cannonade was heard to the south of the James, the occasion of which has not transpired. Grant, probably, was firing another salute for some imaginary success. On Tuesday he fired a salute of one hundred guns in honor of the capture of Wilmington; he had previously, on Monday, fired a similar salute to celebrate the fall of Savannah. Though unable to do anything himself worth making a glorification over, we must accord to him the credit of celebrating both the real and imaginary successes of others with the utmost alacrity. In the instance we have just mentioned, he allowed himself to be carried aw