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The Daily Dispatch: July 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
k place. We are informed that Gen. Crook succeeded in overtaking the raiders near Snicker's Gap, that an engagement ensued; that the Confederates "fought like devils;" but that they were finally defeated, leaving three hundred wagons in the hands of Gen. Crook, and also their dead. We have no confirmation of this story from Washington. Major Gen. A. J. Smith has sent a dispatch to Gen. Washburn, in command at Memphis, stating that he encountered the combined forces of S. D. Lee, Forrest and Walker, at Tupelo, and having whipped them badly in three several engagements, was then on his return to Memphis, bringing back everything in good order. It was previously reported that Smith's force was sent from Memphis to co-operate with Sherman. Gen. Hunter has asked to be relieved from his command of the Department of Western Virginia, in consequence of his troops having been transferred to the command of Gen. Wright. A rumor was current in Washington, Tuesday last, that
The Daily Dispatch: July 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], Late Northern news. (search)
r not, the attention of Grant is diverted from Richmond and Petersburg, and a timely pretext afforded him for not capturing those places, while old Abe and Cabinet are doubtless quaking in their shoes like Belshazzar when he saw the hand-writing on the wall of his banquet chamber. We could easily afford to sacrifice Richmond and Atlanta temporarily to gain the object of this expedition into Maryland. The Yankee pickets called to ours across the river yesterday that they had captured Gen. Forrest in North Mississippi The practice of exchanging papers and trafficking with them has been abolished. Our men became so familiar with them at one time as to suspend hostilities and unite in a grand bathing to limitation. It is thought that Yankee engineers were in the crowd to take observations and learn the localities of fords. On one of these occasions a working party was brought down by the enemy and put to work building fortifications. Our men were withdrawn, and this game sp