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WASHINGTON, Sunday, May 8 -- 9 A.M. We have no official reports from the front, but the Medical Director has notified the Surgeon-General that our wounded were being sent to Washington, and will number from six to eight thousand. To Gen. John A. Dix, New-York: The Chief Quartermaster of the Army of the Potomac has made requisition for seven days' grain, and for railroad construction trains, and states the enemy is reported to be retiring. This indicates Gen. GRANT's advance, and affords an inference of material success on our part. The enemy's strength has always been most felt in his...
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WASHINGTON, Saturday, May 7. The statements which were received here today, and which are entitled to belief, are that Gen. LEE made a tremendous and violent attack to pierce our centre, hoping thereby to divide our forces and to secure a victory; but Gen. HITCHCOCK's corps came to the relief, and, amid a murderous fire, formed in line of battle, and thwarted the designs of the rebels. The loss was heavy on both sides. Gen. SHERIDAN was profitably engaged in another part of the field, and sent the Chief in command a message that he had routed STUART's cavalry. The...
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WASHINGTON, Friday, May 6. There is little doubt but that LEE is falling back from the Rapidan upon Richmond, having been driven to this by the flank movement of Gen. GRANT. The race will now be for Richmond. In the skirmish at Thoroughfare Gap, yesterday, an officer, was killed, on whom was found an order from LEE, directing all the guerrilla cavalry bands of Northern Virginia to return and form a junction with his army. The order was dated May 4, and is considered good evidence that GRANT's movement was a surprise to LEE, and that he is making all...
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WASHINGTON, Thursday, May 5, 1864. The Army of the Potomac began its forward march on Monday. The crossing of the Rapidan was effected without opposition on Tuesday and Wednesday at Culpepper, Jacobs', Germanna and Ely's Fords. No rebels were seen, except a few pickets, who retired as we advanced. If LEE intends to make a stand this side of Richmond, it is possible he may be met near the old battle-ground of Chancellorsville, but it is the general impression that he has fallen back from his position on the Rapidan to Richmond, in order to protect that City from the...
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The steamship Matanzas, from New-Orleans April 26, via Havana April 28, arrived at this port yesterday morning. The news had reached New-Orleans of the evacuation of Grand Ecore by Gen. BANKS, and of his retreat upon Alexandria. There was no news of the battle alleged to have taken place on the 24th, news of which comes via Cairo. The New-Orleans papers, being under very strict military censorship, published nothing up to the 26th concerning Gen. BANKS' retreat, and possibly it may not be true, as it is not otherwise confirmed.THE NEWS VIA CAIRO. CAIRO, Tuesday, May 3. By the arrival...
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Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. WASHINGTON, Tuesday, May 8. Mr. E.A. PAUL sends the following to this bureau: All is quiet with the Army of the Potomac to-day; everything is in readiness, however, for a movement at the proper moment. Our troops are in excellent spirits, and anxious to advance against the enemy under their new Commander-in-Chief. Gen. BURNSIDE's command is in a favorable position. The Fourteenth New-York Battery had a slight skirmish yesterday while going to the front. The men employed in the construction department, and all other supernumerary help, is being sent to the rear as fast...
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WASHINGTON, Monday, May 2. THE ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS Several members of the House called upon the Senate, to-day, to urge the adoption of the House resolutions fixing the last day of May as the time for adjournment. Congress will be ready to do so as soon as the Tariff and Internal Revenue bills are disposed of. All of the large appropriation bills have been acted upon or passed in committee. To-day the naval and civil appropriation bills, with Senate amendments, were considered by the House Ways and Means Committee. The belief is that they will be reported to the House...
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ST. LOUIS, Saturday, April 30. Advices from Camden, Arkansas, say that Gen. STEELE's army is there. Gen. THAYER joined Gen. STEELE at Elkin's Ferry, on the Little Missouri River, where the rebels were driven from a line of breastworks commanding the river bottom. The enemy next stood at Prairie de Anna, which was fortified with a line of rifle-pits and epaulements for guns on barbette a mile and a half long. Gen. STEELE flanked their position and Gen. PRICE skedaddled, after a brisk fight, towards Washington. Other skirmishes occurred during the march, but our total loss was less than 200....
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The Yazoo, from New-Orleans, April 21, the Columbia, from the same port, April 23, via Havana, and the Merrimac, from New-Orleans direct, April 24, arrived at this port yesterday afternoon. We are indebted to the officers of the respective steamers for the prompt delivery of our news packages. Among the passengers in the Merrimac is Gen. ANDREWS, also a number of other officers, and 220 sick and wounded soldiers. Gen. WEITZEL is a passenger in the Columbia. The reports previously received via Cairo, of skirmishing at Grand Ecore, and the probable imminence of a battle, are repeated by these arrivals,...
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WASHINGTON, Friday, April 29. The Congressional Republican caucus this morning agreed to ask for the appointment of a Joint Committee of Congress to investigate charges made against Secretary CHASE by FRANK BLAIR. Senator HOWE will offer a resolution to that effect in the Senate tomorrow. This action is demanded by Mr. CHASE'S friends, who desire to give an official and effectual refutation to the slurs heaped upon him. THE FRENCH TOBACCO. The rebels may endeavor to make capital out of the refusal of our Government to permit the French vessels to ascend the James River, but the French Minister here...
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WASHINGTON, Thursday, April 28. Facts showing the determined energy with which the rebels are concentrating troops in Virginia continue to multiply. The President to-day received a dispatch from Gen. BUTLER stating his belief that the rebel forces were withdrawing from North Carolina and hastening to reinforce LEE. So far as heard from up to 11 o'clock to-night, nothing of much importance has transpired at the front. Note of preparation is still heard, and indications are that collision cannot long be delayed, Gen. BURNSIDE left here on yesterday by special conveyance to join his command; and the signal corps, which has...
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WASHINGTON, Wednesday, April 27. A squad of twenty-five deserters from the rebels, belonging mostly to the Fifteenth Virginia Regiment, arrived here from the front to-day. They escaped while out on picket duty. They agree in their statement that LEE has been of late receiving heavy reinforcements. One of them, who left on Monday last, asserts that much of the heavy artillery had been sent back to Richmond, and the belief was current among the soldiers that an early retrograde movement upon that city would be made. One of LONGSTREET's divisions has been sent back to Richmond from LEE's army. Report...
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WASHINGTON, Tuesday, April 26. AFFAIRS IN THE ARMY. The latest intelligence from the front to-day left everything quiet there. A heavy reconnoissance into the valley developed the fact that no considerable body of rebels are this side the Rapidan. The belief was general that LEE would not venture an offensive movement. A report prevailed to-day at the front that LEE was removing his heavy artillery to Richmond. REPORTED MOVEMENTS OF THE ENEMY. The reported advance of the enemy toward Warrenton was caused by the falling back of Gen. GREGG's Division to Three Mile Station for military purposes. There is no...
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FORTRESS MONROE, Sunday, April 24, via BALTIMORE, Monday, April 25. Capt. WEATHERBEE, of the Twenty-third Massachusetts Regiment, has just arrived from Roanoke Island. He makes the following report: "Gen. WESSELS surrendered to the enemy on Wednesday, the 20th inst., when the rebels took possession of Plymouth, N. C., after four days' hard fighting. Our loss is one hundred and fifty killed and twenty-five hundred captured. The rebel loss is fifteen hundred killed. The Richmond Sentinel of April 22 says the following dispatch has been received by Gen. BRAGG: PLYMOUTH, N.C., April 20. To Gen. Braxton Bragg: I have stormed and...
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From Our Own Correspondent. NEW-ORLEANS, Friday, April 15, 1864. DESPARATE BATTLE IN WEST LOUISIANA. The whole City has, for the last day or two, been in the utmost condition of excitement over the news of the bloodiest fighting that perhaps ever yet occurred on the soil of Louisiana. Amid the many conflicting rumors now current here -- for or against us, just as they may emanate from friends or foes -- it is extremely difficult to get at the real particulars; but from what I have gleaned of the many eye-witnesses with whom I have come in contact here, the...
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From our Special Correspondent. NEWBERN, N.C., Wednesday, April 20, 1864. Advices just received from Plymouth warrant the conclusion that it has fallen into the hands of the enemy. It was attacked by a heavy land force on Sunday evening, (the 17th,) in connection with an iron-clad ram which came down the Roanoke River. In the engagement, the ram sunk the Southfield, (gunboat.) and a small vessel which has frequently been on expeditions up the Roanoke, called the Bombshell. It also partially disabled the gunboat Miami. The ram getting below Plymouth, it is thought impossible for reinforcements to reach the place....
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WASHINGTON, Friday, April 22. The following information was received here to-day concerning the recent disaster at Plymouth, N.C.: A rebel ram came down the river about three o'clock on Monday morning. She floated down with the current and was not discovered until close under the bows of the Miami. Lieut. Commander FLUSSER rushed forward, sighted and fired the bow gun, loaded with shell, which struck the ram, rebounded and instantly killed him, a piece of the shell penetrating his breast. The ram then attacked the Southfield, and she sunk in five minutes. The Miami was somewhat injured. The ram passed...
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