Posted on 06/03/2024 6:42:22 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
A Severe Cavalry Fight at Cold Harbor-Another at Hanover Court-house-The Rebels Severely Defeated is Each Instance-Our Centre Within One and a Half Miles of Mechanicsville.
[OFFICIAL.]
WASHINGTON, Thursday, June 2 -- 12:15 P.M.
Major-Gen. Dix:
A dispatch from Gen. GRANT'S headquarters, dated yesterday, June 1, at 10 A.M., has been received by this department. It states that about 5 P.M. yesterday, (May 31,) Gen. SHERIDAN perceiving a force of rebel cavalry at Cold Harbor, which proved to be FITZ LEE's division, attacked, and after a hard fight, routed it, together with CLINGMAN's brigade of infantry, which came to LEE's support. SHERIDAN remained in possession of the place. He reported at dark that he had a considerable number of prisoners, and that there were many rebel dead and wounded on the field. He was ordered to hold the position, and at 10 P.M., the Sixth Corps set out to occupy it. We have not yet heard from WRIGHT or Gen. SHERIDAN this morning, and do not know whether the former got his troops to their destination. SMITH must be close upon WRIGHT's column.
This morning the enemy are also moving a heavy column in the same direction. The order has just gone to WARREN to fall upon their flank.
WILSON had a fight last evening near Hanover Court-house with YOUNG's brigade of cavalry. He routed YOUNG, killing and capturing many, but there has been a good deal of artillery firing in that direction this morning.
WARREN reported last night that in his fight of Monday afternoon, near Bethesdy Church, Col. TYRELL, Thirteenth Virginia, and Col. WILLIS, commanding PEGRAM's brigade, were killed. Col. CHRISTIAN, Forty-ninth Pennsylvania, was wounded and captured; so was the Assistant Adjutant-General of RAMSAY's brigade, name not reported. Ten other commissioned officers were captured and seventy privates.
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Grant’s Army: A Battle at Cold Harbor – 2
Gen. Butler’s Army: Another Artillery Demonstration – 2-3
Horrors of Rebel Prison-Houses: Names of Three Hundred and Seventy Union Soldiers who Died in Captivity During a Space of Five Weeks – 3
Condition of the Wounded at Fortress Monroe – 3
Department of the South: Loss of the Transport Boston and the Naval Tug Columbine – 3-5
From North Carolina: Shocking Catastrophe near Newbern – 5
Miss Major Cushman – 5
News from Washington – 5-6
Proceedings of Congress – 6-7
Secession and Readmission: Letter of Hon. Chas. Sumner from Gen. E. W. Gantt of Arkansas – 7-8
Our River Fleet and Its Work – 8
Peering Into the Future – 8
Lee’s Line – 8-9
Firing Too High – 9
Bragg Beaten – 9
Gen. Gantt and Senator Sumner – 9
All Right – 9
Crowding the Mourners – 9
Nurses for the Army – 9
West Virginia: Gen. Hunter on Guerrillas – 9
Laird’s Ram and M. Bravay – 9
Supposed Fatal Injury to a Policeman – 9
The Conscription in Hoboken – 9
Those dang Southerners just don’t possess a New York Times mindset.
Deplorables !
Complete debacle.
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