Posted on 11/11/2023 6:47:42 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DISPATCHES.
WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Nov. 10.
The main force of the rebels were at Gordonsville yesterday and Monday morning, making two-forty time to Richmond.
MEADE is encamped at _____, waiting supplies.
The reparation of the railroad to Culpepper is abandoned, and Aquia Creek will be our next base of supplies.
Seventeen hundred muskets have been gathered as fragments of the recent fight, most of them bearing the Tower stamp, 1861, and all of them in a serviceable condition. Two of the cannon captured were 10-pounder Parrotts and two 12-pounder Napoleons, with caissons, limbers, and all complete.
A Union scout just from Richmond and other parts South, reports that LEE is actually in command of BRAGG's army, and that BRAGG, though nominally chief, is LEE's subordinate. He says it was decided a few days since, at a rebel Cabinet session, to abandon Virginia on the first intimation of an intention of MEADE to advance upon Richmond.
DISPATCHES TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Nov. 10.
From information which reached Washington to-night, (the messenger leaving the Army of the Potomac at 10 o'clock this morning,) it appears that Gen. BUFORD yesterday reached a point two miles north of Culpepper, driving the rebel cavalry and infantry before him.
Gen. LEE's headquarters Saturday night were at Brandy Station, on the Rappahannock. This refutes the belief current in some quarters that he had gone South to advise with BRAGG. Our army lay in line of battle all day yesterday, but LEE declined to accept the issue of an engagement.
Snow fell yesterday afternoon along the line of the mountains, covering the peaks of the Blue Ridge.
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It’s rough being a Grunt.
Not only do you experience people shooting at you, but also dealing with extreme environment conditions and low supplies.
More people die of hypothermia than die of hyperthermia.
Oh, and C rations suck. Even if you have a P38 and C4.
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