Posted on 06/18/2024 6:40:51 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
[OFFICIAL.]
WASHINGTON, June 17, 1864.
To Major-Gen. Dix:
The following dispatches have been received by this Department:
CITY POINT, June 15, VIA JAMESTOWN ISLAND, 5:30 A.M., 16 -- 1864.
SMITH, with 15,000 men, attacked Petersburgh this morning.
Gen. BUTLER reports, from his observatory near Bermuda Hundred, that there has been sharp fighting and that the troops and trains of the enemy were, as he writes, moving from the City across the Appomatox as if retreating.
HANCOOK is not near enough to render Gen. SMITH any aid.
The Richmond papers have nothing to indicate a suspicion of our crossing the James River. They expect to be attacked from the direction of Malvern Hill.
CITY POINT, Va., 5:30 P.M., June 15, 1864.
Our latest report from SMITH was at four P.M. He had carried a line of intrenchments at Beatty's House, the colored troops assaulting and carrying the rifle-pits with great gallantry, but he had not yet carried the main line. He describes the rebel artillery are as very heavy.
He expected to assault this line just before dark. HANCOOK is within three miles of SMITH.
CITY POINT, Va., 7 A.M., June 16, VIA JAMESTOWN ISLAND, 11:45 A.M.
At 7:20 P.M. yesterday, SMITH assaulted and carried the principal line of the enemy before Petersburgh, taking thirteen cannon, several stands of colors, and between three and four hundred prisoners. This line is two miles from Petersburgh. HANCOCK got up and took position on SMITH's left at 3 A.M. to-day. There was heavy firing in that direction from 5 to 6 o'clock. No report has been received yet.
DON'T HARD LANDING, Va., June 16 -- 1 P.M.
After sending my dispatch of this morning from the heights southeast of Petersburgh, I went over the conquered lines with Gen. GRANT and the engineer officers.
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