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The Daily Dispatch: August 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
e they left. The reported raid. Nothing more has been heard from the raiding party said to have started out from Grant's army on Monday. The report that they had struck the Danville railroad, so freely circulated yesterday morning, was without foundation. Grant Refuses a Pass to the French Vice-Consul. We are reliably informed that Grant has refused a passage down the James to the representative of the Consul of France at Richmond, with dispatches for the French Minister at -of-truce boat, was assigned a state- room, and made every arrangement for the journey. At night the boat was visited by Grant in person, who, without the knowledge of the Vice-Consul, had an interview with Major Mulford, and instructed him to refu of discourtesy towards a representative of the French Government, and we can only account for it by the supposition that Grant had indulged rather too freely in old Bourbon on Sunday and became vindictive under its effects. From Georgia. T
The Daily Dispatch: August 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
tant. We gave a summary of the news of that date yesterday, and to-day add a few items of interest: The movements of Grant's army. A letter from the Army of the Potomac, dated last Wednesday, says: The Second corps, having been unsucceabout the movements prior to the seizure of the Weldon road: By this strategic movement across the James river, General Grant compelled Lee to extend his lines to that degree that there must be some weak points in it, which Grant will probablyGrant will probably find. The line held by our forces is already entrenched so strongly that they cannot be driven from them by the rebels. There is a good deal of marching and countermarching of divisions, and it is evident that some important movement is on foh corps made a desperate assault on our works, probably under the impression that the movement up James river had obliged Grant to materially weaken his lines in front of Petersburg. The positions of the other corps were also assaulted, and for sev