Posted on 05/16/2024 6:59:04 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
The Latest Army News--Advices from Gen. Grant to Sunday Morning--No more Flighting--News from Gen. Sherman to Saturday Evening--His Army Actively Engaged.
(OFFICIAL.)
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, May 15, 1864 -- 10:15 P.M.
To Major-Gen. Dix:
Dispatches from General Grant have been received by this Department down to seven o'clock this morning. There had been no engagement for the last two days.
Dispatches from Gen. SHERMAN, down to eight o'clock last night, state that his forces had been actively engaged during the day with advantage on our side, but no decided result.
Nothing has been heard from Gen. BUTLER's operations since his telegram of last night, heretofore published. EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
[OFFICIAL.]
WASHINGTON, May 15 -- 9 A.M.
To Maj.-Gen. Dix:
An official dispatch from the battle-field at Spottsylvania, yesterday morning at 6 1/2, states that during the preceding night (Friday) a movement was made by the Fifth and Sixth Corps to our left, and an attack was to have been made at daylight, but no sound of battle had been heard from that quarter. This manoeuvre, it is said, if successful, would place our forces in LEE's rear, and compel him to retreat toward Lynchburgh. No cannon, nor any sound of battle was heard yesterday at Belle Plain or Fredericksburgh, which affords ground for inference that LEE had retreated during Friday night, and before the advance of the Fifth and Sixth Corps. Nothing later than 6:30 A.M. of yesterday has been received from the army by this department. All wounded that had reached Belle Plain yesterday evening have arrived here. The surgical report from the headquarters of the army states that the condition of the supplies is satisfactory, and the wounded are doing well. The Medical Director at Belle Plain
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The Grand Campaign: Very Latest from General Grant – 2-3
Reports from Washington: The Scene After the Battle of Thursday – 3-4
Gen. Butler’s Army: No Fighting on the 11th or 12th inst. – 4
List of Killed, Wounded and Missing – 4
Arrival of Wounded-Return of Col. Phillips, of Maryland – 4
The Funeral of Gen. Sedgwick – 4
Gen. Sherman’s Regulations – 4
Whereabouts of Gen. Sigel – 5
Important Rebel Reports: Averill’s Operations in Southwestern Virginia – 5
The Rebel Losses 30,000-Large Number of Officers Killed and Wounded – 5
The Loss of General Officers – 5
Gen. Sherman’s Army: A Battle Going On Saturday – 5
The Sanitary Commission: Its Labors During the Last Fortnight – 5-6
POSTSCRIPT-Latest from the Army: A Savage Fight on Saturday Evening – 7
News from Washington – 7
Editorial: The President and the War – 7-8
Editorial: The Army of the Kanawha – 8
The Virginia Campaign – 8
Editorial: West Point Soldiership Vindicated – 8-9
Forgery of Official Documents – 9
Amusements this Evening – 9
The fight at the mule shoe during the battle of Spottsylvania was the most brutal fighting of the war.
The more brutal, the better.
The New York Times loves horrible, unnecessary wars. Good for sales.
I love the uneven typeface from old newspapers like it’s an elementary school bulletin.
I wouldn’t say that Lee was retreating.
Certainly Lee had withdrawn his artillery from the mule shoe salient. He may have thought Grant was getting ready to start another flanking maneuver East. In any event it was a mistake.
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