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Burnside (search for this): article 1
re charged by every corps in Grant's army. He holds the entrenchments that were captured and afterwards abandoned by Hancock, and also the positions attacked by Burnside, Wright, and Warren Positions of his whole line were in our possession at one time, but we could not hold them. His present position is evidently one of his str charge on these positions often being exposed to a destructive enfilading fire of grapeshot and cannister. In this way they were mowed down by thousands. When Burnside attempted to carry the enemy's works on Thursday, his men were exposed to this most destructive of all fires, until they rested, staggered, and fell in heaps. Tonable man could have ever looked forward to anything like a rout of Gen Lee's army any more than to that of our own. When such veteran corps as Longstreet's and Burnside's meet, as they have done on many a bloody field, there is no thought on either side of a rout or a fight as a thing which could possibly happen. It is so with
Stone (search for this): article 1
relative to the sense and bearing of the resolution relative to Mexico, which unanimously passed the House on the 4th of April, 1864. The resolution was passed almost unanimously, under a suspension of the rules. How Grant's troops have been slaughtered. From various letters written from Grant's army to the Northern papers the reader can form some idea of how Grant's troops have been slaughtered under his standing order to "send the men in"--The Vermont brigade lost Cols Foster, Stone, Lewis, and Barry, besides any number of line officers. Of the 4th Vermont regiment only ninety men and five officers were left. The brigade to which the Baxter Zouaves, of Philadelphia, belonged was almost destroyed. The 931 N Y regiment went in 550 strong, and in the Wilderness fights alone was reduced to less than 200. Miscellaneous. The captain of the captured blockade-runner Greyhound, which reached Boston on Thursday afternoon, escaped during the excitement incident to her
June 15th (search for this): article 1
he United States, by virtues of the power vested in me by the Constitution had the laws, have thought fit to call forth, and do hereby call forth, the citizens of the United States between the ages of (18) eighteen and (45) forty-five years, to the aggregate number of (400,000) four hundred thousand, in order to suppress the existing rebellions combination and to cause the due execution of the laws. And furthermore, in case any State or number of States shall fail to furnish by the 15th day of June next their assigned quotas. It is hereby ordered that the same shall be raised by an immediate and peremptory draft. The following explanation was published in the New York World next day: The World, in common with the Journal of Commerce and all the city morning papers, was made the victim of a malicious boar by some scoundrel who imitating the manifold copy of the Associated Press sent around the extraordinary proclamation which appeared in our columns this morning. Supposi
Breckinridge (search for this): article 1
armed, equipped and transported to their respective positions. This statement is due to the chiefs of the army, staff and bureau, and their respective corps, to whom the credit belongs. Howin K. Stanton, Secretary of War. Flem's defeat. Stanton makes the of Sigel quite as bad as the Confederate history of it. In his official telegram he says: Dispatches from General Sigel, received this evening, report that on Sunday he fought the forces of Echoes and Emboden, under Breckinridge, at New Market; that the enemy's forces were superior in number, and that he gradually withdrew from the battle field and regressed the Rhennudean having lost five pieces of artillery, about six hundred killed and wounded, and fifty prisoners, but bringing all his trains and all the wounded that could be transported from the battle field. He states that in consequence of the long line and the trains that had to be guarded, he could not bring more than six regiments into the fight,
May 15th (search for this): article 1
iting the same to the Associated Press correspondent at Washington thereby seeking to establish its reliability. The dispatch reads as follows: Washington, May 15--I have no facts to send you. The report that a great battle was in progress yesterday is not believed. As to the result of the ten days fighting, we have not loary Stanton: Washington, May 23, 1.35 P. M. To Maj Gen Dix, New York: Dispatches from Major Gen Canby, dated at the mouth of Red river, at midnight, May 15th, state that Admiral Porter has just arrived, and that the remainder of the gunboats will arrive to night.--Gen Banks will probably reach Semmesport, on the Atchafalaya, to morrow. A dispatch from Admiral Porter, dated on board his flag-ship. Black Hawk, at the mouth of Red river May 15th, states that the portion of the squadron above the falls at Alexandria have been released from their unpleasant position owing to the indefatigable exertions of Lt Col Bailey, acting engineer of the ninet
May 22nd (search for this): article 1
acting engineer of the nineteenth army corps, who proposed and built a free dam of six hundred feet across the river at the lower falls, which enabled all the vessels to pass in safety the back water of the Mississippi reaching Alexandria, and allowed them to pass over all the shoals and the obstructions planted by the enemy to a point of safety. Lt Col Valley will be immediately nominated for promotion for distinguished and meritorious service. An unofficial report from Cairo, dated May 22d, states that the army and gunboats wore all safe at the mouth of the Red river and at Semmesport. Major Gen Sherman, by a despatch at 8.30 P M last night, reports that he will be ready by morning to resume his operations. Returned veterans and regiments, he says, have more than replaced all losses and detachments. We have no official reports since my last telegram from Gen Grant or Gen Butler. Official reports of this Department show that within eight days after the great bat
May 23rd (search for this): article 1
Tayleure: Sir: You are ordered to discontinue the publication of the Evening Transcript. If another issue of the paper makes its appearance the publishing office will be taken possession and all parties connected with it be arrested. Lew Wallace, Maj Gen com'g Middle Dep't. A true copy: Samuel B Lawrence, A A G. Stanton's latest official gazette. The following is the latest "official gazette," as the Yankee papers call it, of Secretary Stanton: Washington, May 23, 1.35 P. M. To Maj Gen Dix, New York: Dispatches from Major Gen Canby, dated at the mouth of Red river, at midnight, May 15th, state that Admiral Porter has just arrived, and that the remainder of the gunboats will arrive to night.--Gen Banks will probably reach Semmesport, on the Atchafalaya, to morrow. A dispatch from Admiral Porter, dated on board his flag-ship. Black Hawk, at the mouth of Red river May 15th, states that the portion of the squadron above the falls at Alexandria ha
Lewis (search for this): article 1
e to the sense and bearing of the resolution relative to Mexico, which unanimously passed the House on the 4th of April, 1864. The resolution was passed almost unanimously, under a suspension of the rules. How Grant's troops have been slaughtered. From various letters written from Grant's army to the Northern papers the reader can form some idea of how Grant's troops have been slaughtered under his standing order to "send the men in"--The Vermont brigade lost Cols Foster, Stone, Lewis, and Barry, besides any number of line officers. Of the 4th Vermont regiment only ninety men and five officers were left. The brigade to which the Baxter Zouaves, of Philadelphia, belonged was almost destroyed. The 931 N Y regiment went in 550 strong, and in the Wilderness fights alone was reduced to less than 200. Miscellaneous. The captain of the captured blockade-runner Greyhound, which reached Boston on Thursday afternoon, escaped during the excitement incident to her arrival
15th (search for this): article 1
ring more than six regiments into the fight, besides the artillery and cavalry, and that the enemy had about seven thousand infantry, besides other arms that his retrograde movement to Strasburg was affected in perfect order, without any loss of material or men. He gives no list of casualties, but Lieut Colonel Lincoln of the 34th Massachusetts, is reported to be wounded and captured. Edwin M Stanton, Secretary of war. An officer who participated in the engagement of the 15th instant, at New Market, under General Sigel, writes as follows: The fighting was terrific, the most on of any battle in the Valley. We could only bring about 3,000 men into the fight the enemy numbered 10,000 to 18,000, and fought like devils. Our cavalry behaved badly, and some of the infantry no better; but the latter wore rallied, the cavalry could not be Gen Sigel was in front, and in the thick of the battle all day, encouraging, directing, and leading the men. The butlers were dense
20th (search for this): article 1
rtificates of disability, and others slightly wounded. General Meade has ordered the latter to be tried by court martial. Many resignations have been sent in within the past two days. All will have to be accepted for the good of the service, as it is believed that no officer capable and disposed to perform his duty at this time would resign. A letter from Fortress Monroe says the steamer Dictator, from Newbern and Hatteras Inlet, reports that a bottle was picked up off Hatteras on the 20th, containing a record of the loss of the steamer Manhattan at sea. She was from Wilmington, N C, bound to Bermuda. A large lot of cotton was picked up off Hatteras on the . On Thursday the members of the Ladies' Loyal League held their anniversary meeting at the Church of the Puritans, at New York, are Stanton presiding. Addresses were made by Lucretis Scott. Wendell Phillips and George Thompson. Gen Hooker, it seems, was not wounded in the recent battles at and near Reases. The
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