Posted on 11/10/2023 6:14:52 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DISPATCHES.
WASHINGTON, Monday, Nov. 9.
Our information from Headquarters this evening is that Gen. BUFORD had a short skirmish with the enemy yesterday, near Rixleyville Headquarters. At Bewens' house, near Beverly Ford, Gen. MEADE yesterday (Sunday) crossed at Keily's Ford, and made his headquarters a mile beyond for a while, and then returned to the forementioned point.
The bulk of the army is across the river near Brandy Station.
The total loss of the Sixth corps at Rappahannock Station, on Saturday night, was two hundred and sixty.
The rebels are reported in some force at Stevensburgh.
The Orange and Alexandria Railroad is completed to near Bealton Station. Men are still at work on it.
Heavy firing was heard yesterday and this morning as though occurring in the lower part of Culpepper, beyond Kelly's Ford, in the direction of the junction of the Rapidan and the Rappahannock.
The Star suggests that our army already occupies the whole of Culpepper, and believes that if he decides to advance on that line, MEADE will break up the rebel railroad at and around Gordonsville as thoroughly as the rebels destroyed the Orange and Alexandria Railroad between Rappahannock Station and Bristoe. They would be powerless to repair such a ruin.
LATER. -- Officers from the front this evening state that Culpepper is occupied by our troops, and that our cavalry had reconnoitered as far as the Rapidan without meeting the rebels in considerable force. The whole of MEADE's army is across the Rappahannock, and the impression among military men is that LEE's entire force is in full retreat for Richmond, and that it will make no effort to retard our advance this side of the fortifications of that city. There is no rebel force of importance at Fredericksburgh.
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Freedman’s Relief Meeting: General Grant Acting in their Behalf – 5-6
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Lee’s Report of the Late Campaign – 7
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