PETERSBURGH: PROGRESS OF OPERATIONS; Heavy Fighting on Friday and Saturday (6/21/1864)

New York Times archives – Times Machine ^ | 6/21/1864

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WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, Monday, June 20 -- 10 P.M.

To Major-Gen. Dix:

No operations to-day on the James River have been reported to the Department. Unofficial statements represent our loss to have been severe in the assaults on the enemy's works on Saturday, but no official list of the casualties have been received.

Gen. SHERMAN, in a dispatch dated this evening (7:30 P.M.) says: "I was premature in announcing that the enemy had abandoned his position. I based my report upon those of the army commanders. The enemy has thrown back his flank and abandoned all his works in front of Kensaw Mountain, but holds that mountain as the apex of his position, with his flanks behind Noonday and Moses Creeks. We have pressed him pretty close to-day, although the continued rain makes all movements a most an impossibility."

Gen. FOSTER, commanding the Department of the South at Hilton Head, forwards the following dispatch, dated June 15, at Hilton Head, S.C.: "I have the honor to report that I have to-day received from Major Gen. SAMUEL JONES, commanding the rebel forces in this department, a letter stating that five General officers of the United States, as prisoners of war, had been placed in Charleston, to be retained there under our fire. Against this weak and cruel act I have protested. In the meantime, the fire on the city is continued. I respectfully ask that an equal number of rebel officers of equal rank may be sent to me, in order that I may place them under the rebel fire as long as our officers are exposed in Charleston."

This department has issued a retaliatory order, transferring to Gen. FOSTER an equal number of rebel General officers, to be treated in the manner proposed as long as our

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Petersburgh: Progress of Operations – 2-5
Casualties – 5-11
Southern News – 11
News from Washington – 11
Proceedings of Congress – 11-13
Base Ball: Best Contested Game, So Far, of the Season – 13
Injustice to Our Troops – 13
A Small Lie Nailed – 13
Turf Record: The Great Trot at the Fashion Course Tomorrow – 13