Posted on 06/30/2024 6:52:54 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Special Dispatch to the New-York Times.
WASHINGTON, Wednesday, June 29.
Latest advices from Gen. GRANT's headquarters report only such occasional skirmishing and artillery practice as inevitably result from the close proximity of the two forces. The chief enemy our soldiers have had lately to combat are the heat and dust, which have been of the most malignant character. For thirty days not a drop of rain has fallen, making a drouth of a duration unparalleled in that region for many years. It is with the utmost difficulty that men and animals get even a scanty supply of water.
Gen. PALMER's raid from Newbern on the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad seems to supply a perfect explanation of the recently reported march of rebel troops from LEE's army into North Carolina, on which such absurd speculations have been based.
Gen. HANCOCK yesterday morning resumed command of the Second Army Corps.
On Friday last, Acting Master STREET, of the flotilla, obtained information that there were a number of guerrillas on the Peninsula, between Rappahannock and Planketank rivers, engaged in making torpedoes, which were to be placed in the rivers, and accordingly on that night he landed with thirty men and proceeded over the country some ten miles, capturing six persons, and among whom was a Confederate Captain and a physician, whom he brought off to his vessel.
Our Forces in Possession of the Weldon Railroad-Sharp Skirmishing Nightly-The Attack on Sheridan's Cavalry.
HEADQUARTERS, ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Tuesday, June 28 -- 5 A.M.
All remains quiet at the front. Our left wing swung round and took possession of the Weldon Railroad, about four miles from the city, without opposition.
It is believed the enemy's lines have been somewhat contracted since Friday last
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