Posted on 06/29/2024 7:08:48 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Tuesday, June 28.
To Major-Gen. Dix:
A dispatch from Lieut. Gen. GRANT, dated yesterday, the 27th, at 3.30 P. M., at his headquarters, reports no operations in front except from our own guns, which fire into the bridge at Petersburgh from a distance of two thousand yards, The dispatch gives the following intelligence from rebel papers. A Petersburgh paper of the 25th inst. states that Gen. HUNTER is striking for Jackson River depot, about forty miles north of Salem, and says that if he reaches Covington, which they suppose he will do with most of his forces, but with loss of material, he will be safe.
The same paper accuses Gen. HUNTER of destroying a great amount of private property, and stealing a large number of wagons, horses and cattle.
The same paper also states that Gen. WILSON destroyed a train of cars, loaded with cotton and furniture, burned the depot buildings, &c., at Burkesville, and destroyed some of the track, and was still pushing South. All the railroads leading into Richmond are now destroyed, and some of them badly.
A dispatch from Gen. SHERMAN, received this morning, reports that yesterday, June 27, an unsuccessful attack was made by our forces on the enemy's position, which resulted in a loss of between two and three thousand. The following particulars are given:
Pursuant to my orders of the 24th inst. a diversion was made on each flank of the enemy especially down the Sandtown road. At 8 A.M. Gen. MCPHERSON attacked at the southwest end of Kensaw, and Gen. THOMAS at a point about a mile further south. At the same time the skirmishers and artillery alone the whole line kept up a sharp fire. Neither attack succeeded, though both columns reached the enemy's works which are very strong.
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