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The Daily Dispatch: August 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], Still later from the North. (search)
burg. An official dispatch from General Sheridan reports his forces moving up the Shenandoah Valley against the enemy, and at 4 o'clock yesterday (Wednesday) skirmishing was going on ten miles from Winchester. From Grant's army. There is nothing important from the Army of the Potomac. General Grant has returned to City Point. He reports the explosion of an ordnance boat, Tuesday, loaded with ammunition, at the City Point wharf. No details are given. From Florida. General Birney has made a raid in Florida, destroying several bridges and capturing a locomotive and several cars and a quantity of small arms. We now hold Baldwin and Camp Milton. Reported resignation of Secretary Station. Washington is filled with rumors of coming cabinet changes. One set of reports state that Secretaries Seward, Welles and Blair have tendered their resignations, whilst another says that Mr. Stanton is to vacate the War Department. The following is a special dispatch