FROM GEN. MEADE’S ARMY: The Position of the Rebel Army Ascertained; Hill’s and Longstreet’s Corps at Culpepper (7/28/1863)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 7/28/1863

[Homer_J_Simpson]

SPECIAL DISPATCH FROM WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, Monday, July 27.

The following dispatches from E.A. PAUL, TIMES correspondent with the Army of the Potomac, have just been received here:

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, 25th July -- 6 P.M.

The positions of the rebel army are as follows:

On Friday morning at 6 o'clock the advance of HILL's and LONGSTREETS's corps reached Culpepper. The columns were well closed up, and their entire corps must be concentrated there before this time. Of this retrograde movement there can be no question. For two days I had a favorable opportunity to take birdseye views of both HILL's and LONGSTREET's commands, and on one occasion was quite as near as was prudent for a non-combatant to be.

EWELL's corps, it is understood here, still occupies the Shenandoah Valley, where it is guarding the fords on the Shenandoah and the rear of the rebel army. This fact is supposed to explain the recent alarm about the alleged movements indicating that LEE was not retreating, and was indeed preparing to return to Maryland.

The Excelsior brigade had a fight yesterday at Ashby's Gap with the enemy, where the latter hap both infantry and cavalry. After a brief but severe contest, the enemy were repulsed, and a large number of prisoners captured. Among the wounded is Brig., Gen. F.B. SPINOLA.

HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY DIVISION, AMISSVILLE, Va., Saturday, July 25.}

Gen. CARTER, with three regiments of the Michigan brigade under command of Col. GRAY, (Col. Town, the senior officer, being sick,) advanced from this place to Newby's Cross Roads to reconnoiter the enemy's position. The Fifth Michigan were in advance. The enemy's pickets were met within half a mile of the Cross Roads, when the advance guard was dismounted and deployed as skirmishers, and one section of PENNINGTON's battery,

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From Gen. Meade’s Army: The Position of the Rebel Army Ascertained – 2-3
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The Repulse at Fort Wagner: Partial Lists of Killed and Wounded in the New-York and New-England Regiments – 3-6
News from Washington: Our Special Washington Dispatches – 6
Editorial: Lee’s Retreat – 6
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[GranTorino]

Wonder why the 54th Mass.casualties are listed last being they led the charge?
Harpers Weekly worried about there being trouble with the Irish?

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

“Harpers Weekly worried about there being trouble with the Irish?”

There’s always trouble with the Irish. I know first hand.

5.56mm

[GranTorino]

You were hung during a draft riot?🤔