THE RICHMOND MARCH: Rapid Progress of Grant’s Army; The South Anna Reached on Tuesday Night (5/26/1864)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 5/26/1864

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Latest News from Gen. Grant--The Operations of Monday--Capture of One Thousand Prisoners--The South Anna Reached by Tuesday Night--News from Gen. Butler--Rebel Chivalry Repulsed by Negro Troops.

[OFFICIAL.]

WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, Wednesday, May 25--9 P.M.

To Major-Gen. Dix:

The latest date from Gen. GRANT's headquarters, received by this Department, is dated at Mount Connel Church, 1 P.M. yesterday. The dispatch says everything is going well. WARREN has four hundred prisoners, HANCOCK some three hundred, and WRIGHT has picked up some. The whole number resulting from yesterday's operations will not fall short of a thousand. WARREN's loss is not over three hundred, killed and wounded.

The prisoners captured are, in a great part, North Carolinians, are much discouraged, and say that LEE has deceived them.

The pursuit is delayed by the great fatigue of the men. Still, HANCOCK and WARREN will reach the South Anna by nightfall.

Gen. BUTLER, in a dispatch, dated at headquarters in the field, at 7 o'clock this morning, reports that, "Major-Gen. FITZHUGH LEE, lately promoted, made with cavalry, infantry and artillery, an attack upon my post at Wilson's Wharf, north side of James River, below Fort Powhatan, garrisoned by two regiments, all negro troops, Brig.-Gen. WILD commanding, and was handsomely repulsed. Before the attack LEE sent a flag, stating that he had force enough to take the place, demanded its surrender, and in that case the garrison should be turned over to the authorities at Richmond as prisoners of war, but if this proposition was rejected, he would not be answerable for the consequences when he took the place. Gen. WILD replied: 'We will try that.' Reinforcements were at once sent, but the fight was over before their arrival. Our loss is not yet reported."

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The Richmond March: Rapid Progress of Grant’s Army – 2
Gen. Butler’s Army: A Reconnoissance by Gen. Smith – 2-3
The War in Arkansas – 3
Late Rebel News: Sheridan’s Work – 3
POSTSCRIPT-The Very Latest: The Rebel Retreat Precipitate – 4
News from Washington – 4
Proceedings of Congress – 4-6
Military Education: West Point Vindicated – 6-7
Editorial: The Campaign – 7
Editorial: Our Army – 7
Military Education – 7
Editorial: West Point again Vindicated – Gens. Sigel and Butler – 7-8
Military Execution at Fort McHenry: Execution of Andrew Laypole as a Spy – 8
The War in West Louisiana: Congratulatory Orders of Gen. Kirby Smith – 8
Funeral of Nathaniel Hawthorne – 8