Posted on 06/08/2024 6:27:21 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Late News from Gen. Grant--An Attack on Burnside Repulsed--Exchange of Flags of Truce in Reference to the Killed and Wounded--Grant Besieging Lee in his Lines.
[OFFICIAL.]
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, June 7 -- 10:15 P.M.
Major-Gen. Dix:
Dispatches from headquarters, Army of the Potomac, dated 9 o'clock this morning, have been received. An assault was made on BURNSIDE about midnight, and successfully repulsed. In the preceding afternoon, a hundred picked men of the enemy made a rush to find out what was the meaning of HANCOCK's advancing siege lines. Nine of the party were captured, and the rest killed or driven back.
Several letters have passed between Gen. GRANT and Gen. LEE in respect to collecting the dead and wounded between the two armies. Gen. GRANT in the closing letter, regrets that all his efforts "for alleviating the sufferings of wounded men left on the field, have been rendered nugatory."
Two rebel officers and six men, sent out to search for the wounded of their commands, were captured in consequence of the enemy not delivering Gen. LEE's letter until after the hour he had named had expired. Gen. GRANT has notified Gen. LEE that they were captured through a misunderstanding, and will not be held as prisoners, but will be returned.
No other military intelligence has been received.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
BATTLE OF SUNDAY.
Special Dispatch to the New-York Times.
NEAR COLD HARBOR, Sunday Evening, June 5.
The enemy appear to be exceedingly anxious to break up our lines, particularly on the left, so as to cut off all communication with White House Landing. During the last three days they have made several assaults, but in each instance were repulsed with fearful loss.
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