Posted on 06/28/2024 7:02:04 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Special Dispatch to the N.Y. Times.
WASHINGTON, Monday, June 27.
Some high army officers are not so greatly mystified as some others as to the object of GRANT's movement to the left, and the real object of LEE's prolongation of his right against our left. Last week Gen. GRANT moved his corps to the left until he almost struck the line of the Weldon Railroad. That part of his army (the Second Corps) which first approached it was instantly confronted by a sufficient body of rebels to hold it in temporary check, and when the enemy saw that GRANT's advance there was serious, they on Friday last began a general movement to our left, and on that day LONGSTEET's and HILL's corps were on our front on the railroad. It is, in fact, the railroad lines of communication that GRANT and LEE are after, and the Weldon road that both armies are ready to give battle for. Our cavalry have lately touched and torn the latter at different points, and our artillery has played upon it, but the rebels have promptly set about the work of repairing damages, and now defend the line.
Two of the army letters in Monday's TIMES from correspondents in different parts of GRANT's army, in giving the information of LEE moving to our left on the line of the Weldon Railroad, mention that the opinion is current in the army that he will abandon Richmond, and push into North Carolina. This sort of theory has been current very often during the war, but it has never been realized practically, and is certainly not likely to be at this moment.
The latest news from the army is up to Sunday morning, by messengers who left the front to take Sunday's boat at City Point.
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