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The Daily Dispatch: May 17, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
g with huzzas for Grant, for Meade, for Burnside, for everybody. Our wounded have suffered severely, and but for a humane and tender regard for their condition we should undoubtedly ere this have been upon the south banks of the Anna. Sheridan's raid. A telegram from Secretary Stanton, dated the 12th, says: A dispatch from Gen Sheridan, dated headquarters of the cavalry corps of the army of the Potomac, May 10, states that he turned the enemy's right and got into their rear Gen Sheridan, dated headquarters of the cavalry corps of the army of the Potomac, May 10, states that he turned the enemy's right and got into their rear — had destroyed from eight to ten miles of railroad, two locomotives and three trains, and a very large quantity of supplies; and that since he had got into their rear there was great excitement among the inhabitants and the army. The enemy's cavalry had tried to annoy his rear and flank, but had been run off, and he had recaptured five hundred of our men, two of them Colonels. The defeat of Banks in Louisiana. A Washington telegram says that a bearer of dispatches from Admiral Porter
The Daily Dispatch: May 17, 1864., [Electronic resource], Confederate States Congress. (search)
ceived yesterday early in the day the gratifying news that Gen. Breckinridge had whipped the German Red Republican Gen. Sigel, in a fight which took place near New Market, in Shenandoah county. His forces must have been badly routed, as they are represented as fleeing from the field across the north branch of the Shenandoah, which was near at hand, and burning the bridge after them. Of the relative number of men engaged in the battle we are not in formed. But it must have been extraordinary if the enemy did not outnumber us.--Sigel's column was a part of the combined movement for our final subjugation, as was also Averill's. Both of them have been defeated, and thus falls three of the minor heads of the monster, Sheridan's raid constituting the third. The brave Confederates are lopping them off one after another. Let us hope that in a few days at least some of the larger ones, with more force and vitality, will fall to the ground and be crushed under the heel of the Confederacy.