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The Daily Dispatch: June 6, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Our loss to-day has been small, and our success, under the blessing of God, all that we could expect. Respectfully, R. E. Lee, General. In the above dispatch Gen. Lee makes invariable mention of a gallant command to whom proper creditGen. Lee makes invariable mention of a gallant command to whom proper credit has not heretofore been given — the Maryland battalion. We the informed that their charge, in conjunction with the Floridians, was irresistible. In the accounts published on Saturday the mention of the heavy fighting on Kershaw's front failed by the enemy upon our lines. This proved to be correct, and the result is given in the following official dispatch from Gen. Lee: Headq'rs Army of Northern Va., June 4, 1864, 8:30 P. M. Hon. Secretary of War: Last night, after the date o-day, except skirmishing at various points. The position of the army is substantially unchanged. Respectfully, R. E. Lee, General. In the fight on Friday night Gen. Breckinridge had a narrow escape. His horse was shot under him,
The Daily Dispatch: June 6, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ssembled a large force at Bottom's Bridge. If he can get over this side, he hopes to get possession of White Oak Swamp and Malvern Hill, as McClellan did, and thus to open the way to the river. These positions are both in our hands, and we hardly think they will be abandoned without a struggle. How capable they are of defence McClellan made it appear upon his retreat. Being now in our possession, we shall be in the position that McClellan was then, and Grant will be in the position that Gen. Lee then occupied.--Now, in 1862, our men carried the positions of Cold Harbor and Gaines's Mill, which McClellan held then as we do now, while we occupied the position now held by Grant. Thus far Grant has been unable to make the slightest impression upon these positions. On the contrary, he has been repulsed in every attack he has made, most signally and most murderously. The affair of Friday was a mere massacre, and the attack of Friday night was repulsed with heavy loss on the part of th
The Daily Dispatch: June 6, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Chances of blockade running. (search)
from Staunton, one by Lynchburg, one from Norfolk, on the South side, and one from Old Point, up the Peninsula. Each of these was to be able to whip the army of Gen. Lee without any assistance from the others. There can be no doubt that if his plan had been carried out, Richmond must have fallen. At present Raymond is in trill?--All these were in possession of McClellan, and he fought a battle and was whipped at each one of them. Has Grant got them all, or any one of them? If so, Gen. Lee certainly does not know it, nor does his army, or any officer or soldier thereof. Nay, more: We shrewdly suspect Gen. Grant is himself ignorant of his good fortfficulty in gaining battles and carrying positions--upon paper. Our information — which we do not pretend to put in competition with that of the Times--is, that Gen. Lee holds every one of these positions, with an army whose daily amusement is the flog Grant's veterans — that Grant has day after day, and night after night, been
The Daily Dispatch: June 6, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Chances of blockade running. (search)
Yankee steamers burned. Clinton, La, June 3, via Summit, June 4. --On Friday night last, as appears from New Orleans papers of Saturday, ten steamboats were burned at the New Orleans levee. Their names are the Black Hawk, Better Time, Tide Bell, Lee, Faun, Nebraska, Belle Creole, New Orleans, and Empire Parish, and a steam barge. One explosion of a shell occurred on the Faun. Everything on board the steamers was lost. The Nebraska was a Yankee transport. The Picayune and Courier Francaise have been suppressed.