Posted on 10/20/2023 6:11:58 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Special Dispatch to the New-York Times.
WASHINGTON, Monday, Oct. 19.
There is the same ebb and flow of rumor to-day as yesterday. Cavalry soldiers, returned from Edward's Ferry, report that there was heavy cannonading throughout yesterday about twelve miles away, and seemingly at Point of Rocks.
The explanation by wiser ones is that the woods were being teased with shells to dislodge guerillas supposed to be lurking there.
A reconnoissance, made yesterday some miles out beyond Bristow Station, demonstrated that there was no force of rebels along the Orange and Alexandria Railroad. Our captures demonstrate that only A.P. HILL's corps and STUART's cavalry took part in last week's operations. Where is EWELL? Where is the principal part of LEE's army? The force that WARREN whipped marched with only five days' rations in the sack and in the wagon. These were ate up by Saturday, and unless rebels can live on di[???] and atmospheric air, they have got to fall back south of the Rappahannock. Indeed, it is probable now that they are wholly gone.
The effectual destruction of the railroad by MEADE at selected points will cripple the rebel commissariat, and insure for a time LEE's staying where he can feed his troops.
On the other line of reconnoissance made last Wednesday up the Shenandoah Valley as far as Front Royal, showed that no rebel army had marched down the Valley simultaneously with their advance across the Rapidan. Up to this hour (3 P.M.) there seems, therefore, to have been no well-grounded seasons for Washington to believe that an attack in force upon MEADE had been contemplated by LEE.
It is known that the Richmond Government thought that four corps had been detached from MEADE's army for ROSECRANS' needs, and it is the better judgment here that LEE simply
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*My usual policy is to skip news from Europe since there is plenty of domestic news to keep me busy. The news in today’s Times Machine edition, however, is mostly illegible on pages 1-6. The quality is good on pages 7 and 8, which is where the news from Europe happens to be. So, in order to provide readable material I am forced to suspend the anti-Europe policy – HJS.
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