Posted on 09/15/2023 7:43:06 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Sept. 15.
L.L. CROUNSE sends the following to this Bureau:
Gen. PLEASANTON reached the Rapidan River at Raccoon Ford, yesterday forenoon, after considerable heavy skirmishing between Culpepper and that point. Up to that time, no rebel infantry had been met with, though a heavy force of rebel cavalry had been driven back by our forces. Fighting was going on at Raccoon Ford yesterday. The enemy was vigorously resisting all our attempts to cross. It is reported that a brigade of rebel infantry was at that point, resisting our advance.
Gen. FOSTER telegraphs from Fortress Monroe that the main body of the rebel army is at Richmond, where LEE's headquarters now are, and that there is no force of any consequence in Gen. MEADE's front.
Gen. PLEASANTON will probably ascertain the exact position of the rebel army in a day or two.
A train of cars ran through to Culpepper from Washington, to-day, with supplies for our troops.
FOREIGN INTERVENTION.
Special Dispatch to the New-York Times.
WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Sept. 15.
The foreign papers, I see, are full of rumors of French intervention. I have good reason for believing them to be entirely groundless. The victories of Gettysburgh, Vicksburgh and Port Hudson had quite as marked an effect in France as in England. Beyond all question, previous to those victories the French Emperor believed that his intervention would terminate the war. The paragraph in the Moniteur which attracted so much attention, proved that this was his impression. A very emphatic and peremptory dispatch from our Secretary of State gave him to understand that any such interference would most certainly prolong the war and enlarge the sphere of its operations. The victories of July gave very great weight to this declaration
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