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June 29th (search for this): article 2
a desperate resistance to the progress of the siege, with the hope that relief will soon reach them. Additional rebel reinforcements are said to be on the way from General Bragg to General Johnston, and the latter is perfecting arrangements to attack Gen. Grant's rear. Generals Price, Marmaduke, and Kirby Smith are combining to get to some point on the banks of the Mississippi, and will probably make an attempt to take Milliken's Bend and stop navigation. Chickasaw Bayon, June 29, via Cairo, July 3. A gentleman from the front reports everything in statu quo. Operations continue against the rebel works, but the firing is better than that two days ago. The rebels still dispute our hold on Fort Hill. Col. Melanchthon Smith died of his wounds yesterday. Colonel Hansville was mortally wounded by a grenade while entering the fort. Johnston's advance is said to be a few miles from our outer pickets, but with only a show of force, it is expected. Nothing
June 30th (search for this): article 2
ivate property was respected, and nothing touched but Government property"--(a most astounding Yankee lie) Gen. Lee asked to be sent to Baltimore, but the request was denied. Militia called out in Washington. Lincoln, after "the latest intelligence" from Meade, called out the Washington militia, to serve 60 days. Martial law is prevailing in that city, and much excitement is created by the call for the militia. Proclamation of General early to the people of York. Harrisburg, June 30. --To the courtesy of Mr. O Neil, of Pittsburg, I am indebted for a copy of the following: York, June 30, 1863. To the Citizens of York: I have abstained from burning the railroad buildings and car shop in your town because, after examination, I am satisfied the safety of the town would be endangered; and acting in the spirit of humanity, which has ever characterized my Government and its military authorities, I do not desire to involve the innocent in the same punishment
July 2nd (search for this): article 2
e river. Battle Field near Gettysburg, Thursday, 4.30 P. M. The day has been quiet up to the present moment. The enemy are now massing a heavy force on our left, and have just began the attack with artillery. The probability is that a severe battle will be fought before dark. The rebel sharpshooters have been annoying our batteries and men all day from the steeples of the churches in Gettysburg. We hold the Emmetsburg and Baltimore roads. Wrightsville, Pa., July 2, 1 o'clock, midnight. Our forces are known to have gained upon the enemy until 4 o'clock this afternoon.--Since 5 o'clock the firing has been much heavier and more rapid, indicating a general engagement between the entire armies. The rebel force is concentrated on South Mountain, toward Carlisle, six miles north of Gettysburg. Gen. Sedgwick's corps passed York in the direction of Dover, at 4 o'clock this afternoon. It is in the rear of the enemy. The 2d army corps moved up from H
July 3rd (search for this): article 2
among the wounded Generals are Sickles, Barlow, Graham, and Warren, slightly. We have taken a large number of prisoners. " [second Dispatch.] Washington, July 3. --A later dispatch has been received from Major-General Meade, dated 8 o'clock this morning, which says: "The action commenced again at early dayligh His body is within our lines. We have thus far about 1,600 prisoners, and a small number yet to be started. " Dispatches about the fighting. Harrisburg, July 3. --A prominent citizen of Gettysburg, who left there yesterday morning on a pass issued by Gen. Ewell to go to Heidleburg, met Stuart, Fitzhugh Lee, and Wadoint on the banks of the Mississippi, and will probably make an attempt to take Milliken's Bend and stop navigation. Chickasaw Bayon, June 29, via Cairo, July 3. A gentleman from the front reports everything in statu quo. Operations continue against the rebel works, but the firing is better than that two days ago. T
Bragg (search for this): article 2
ey undermined and blew up. Their dispatches, however, do not so claim. The following are the latest dispatches: Memphis, Tenn., July 1.--Official advices from the army of General Grant to the 28th of June furnish the following particulars: The rebel garrison at Vicksburg is very active. The rebels are making a desperate resistance to the progress of the siege, with the hope that relief will soon reach them. Additional rebel reinforcements are said to be on the way from General Bragg to General Johnston, and the latter is perfecting arrangements to attack Gen. Grant's rear. Generals Price, Marmaduke, and Kirby Smith are combining to get to some point on the banks of the Mississippi, and will probably make an attempt to take Milliken's Bend and stop navigation. Chickasaw Bayon, June 29, via Cairo, July 3. A gentleman from the front reports everything in statu quo. Operations continue against the rebel works, but the firing is better than that two d
Thomas (search for this): article 2
utenant Bayard Wilkison, commanding Battery G, Fourth regular artillery, son of Samuel Wilkison, Washington correspondent of the Times, right leg shot ofi below the knee, while gallantly fighting his battery against an eight- gun battery of the enemy, enfilading his position; believed to be a prisoner. Col. Stone, 149th Pennsylvania, commanding brigade, badly wounded. Col. Root, 94th New York, wounded and prisoner. Col. Tilden, 16th Maine, taken prisoner. Capts. Hovey and Thomas, of Gen. Robinson's staff, wounded. Col. Muhier, 75th Pennsylvania, dangerously wounded. Col. Lockman, 119th New York, wounded. Adj't Dodge, 119th New York, wounded and captured. Lieut. Col. Arrowsmith, 157th New York, killed. The following is a list of losses of officers in Gen. Sol. Meredith's brigade, Wadsworth's division, first army corps, in yesterday's fight: Gen. Meredith, bruised on top of the head by a fragment of shell. His horse was shot under him and fe
Stanton (search for this): article 2
nt paragraph over the fight, which is very significant. The World, of the 4th, says: At last a gleam of intelligible light relieves the murky chaos of official telegrams, in which, for three days past, the battle-fields of Pennsylvania have been enshrouded. In a dispatch which would have better satisfied the general expectations, and gone further to appease the general anxiety, had the War Department thought fit to publish it in full, but which, even in the mutilated form in which Mr. Stanton presents it, commands attention and inspires confidence by its modest and manly tone, General Meade announces that a great battle really began on Thursday evening, and was renewed yesterday morning, between his own army and the whole force of the enemy. He claims for his troops the credit of a stern and solid resistance to an attack of which he does not conceal the fierce and formidable character, and at 8 o'clock on Friday morning he asserts the continued success of that resistance
Grant (search for this): article 2
kee letters from Vicksburg assert that they hold the fort which they undermined and blew up. Their dispatches, however, do not so claim. The following are the latest dispatches: Memphis, Tenn., July 1.--Official advices from the army of General Grant to the 28th of June furnish the following particulars: The rebel garrison at Vicksburg is very active. The rebels are making a desperate resistance to the progress of the siege, with the hope that relief will soon reach them. Additional rebel reinforcements are said to be on the way from General Bragg to General Johnston, and the latter is perfecting arrangements to attack Gen. Grant's rear. Generals Price, Marmaduke, and Kirby Smith are combining to get to some point on the banks of the Mississippi, and will probably make an attempt to take Milliken's Bend and stop navigation. Chickasaw Bayon, June 29, via Cairo, July 3. A gentleman from the front reports everything in statu quo. Operations continue
Washington (search for this): article 2
he New York Herald contains a number of letters from the Peninsula, giving an account of Dix's movement on Richmond. Col. Spears's "brilliant movement" was made by 1,200 cavalrymen, and left West Point on the 25th. They went to Tunstall's, and thence to Hanover bridge. At the South Anna bridge they found a company of the 44th N. C. troops, who were well posted, and "to the last brave and unyielding until overpowered." They captured Gen. W. H. F. Lee. Of the raid Gen. Dix telegraphed to Washington that "private property was respected, and nothing touched but Government property"--(a most astounding Yankee lie) Gen. Lee asked to be sent to Baltimore, but the request was denied. Militia called out in Washington. Lincoln, after "the latest intelligence" from Meade, called out the Washington militia, to serve 60 days. Martial law is prevailing in that city, and much excitement is created by the call for the militia. Proclamation of General early to the people of York. Ha
Dodge (search for this): article 2
ofi below the knee, while gallantly fighting his battery against an eight- gun battery of the enemy, enfilading his position; believed to be a prisoner. Col. Stone, 149th Pennsylvania, commanding brigade, badly wounded. Col. Root, 94th New York, wounded and prisoner. Col. Tilden, 16th Maine, taken prisoner. Capts. Hovey and Thomas, of Gen. Robinson's staff, wounded. Col. Muhier, 75th Pennsylvania, dangerously wounded. Col. Lockman, 119th New York, wounded. Adj't Dodge, 119th New York, wounded and captured. Lieut. Col. Arrowsmith, 157th New York, killed. The following is a list of losses of officers in Gen. Sol. Meredith's brigade, Wadsworth's division, first army corps, in yesterday's fight: Gen. Meredith, bruised on top of the head by a fragment of shell. His horse was shot under him and fell upon him, bruising and injuring him internally. Lieut. Col. G W Woodward, Aid de-Camp to Meredith, wounded in right arm. The New York pap
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