AROUND PETERSBURGH: THE GREAT CAVALRY EXPEDITION; Return of Generals Wilson and Kautz (7/4/1864)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 7/4/1864

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Official News from Gen. Sherman's Army-Official from Gen. Wilson-From the Shenandoah Valley.

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WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, D.C., July 3, 1864 -- 9 P.M.

To Maj.-Gen, Dix:

The following telegram, dated to-day at Marietta, Ga., was received this evening from Gen. SHERMAN, giving the successful result of the flanking operations in progress for some days back:

"The movement on our right caused the enemy to evacuate. We occupied Kenesaw at daylight, and Marietta at 8:30 A.M. THOMAS is moving down the main road, toward the Chattahoochie, and MCPHERSON toward the mouth of the Nickajack, on the Sandtown road. Our cavalry is on the extreme flanks. Whether the enemy will halt this side of the Chattahoochie or not will soon be known. Mariette is almost entirely abandoned by its inhabitants. More than a mile of the railroad iron has been removed between the town and the foot of the Kenesaw."

A dispatch from Gen. GRANT's headquarters, dated at 9 o'clock this morning, gives the following results of Gen. WILSON's operations:

"Sixty miles of railroads were thoroughly destroyed. The Danville Road, Gen. WILSON reports, could not be repaired in less than forty days, even if all the materials were on hand. He has destroyed all the blacksmith-shops where the rails might be straightened, and all the mills where scantlings for sleepers could be sawed. Thirty miles of the South Side Road were destroyed. WILSON brought in about four hundred negroes, and many of the vast number of horses and mules gathered by his force. He reports that the rebels slaughtered without mercy the negroes they retook. WILSON's loss of property is a small wagon train, used to carry ammunition, his ambulance train and twelve cannon. The horses of our artillery and wagons were generally brought off. Of the cannon, two were removed

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Around Petersburgh: The Great Cavalry Expedition – 2-4
A New Rebel Raid: Another Raid in the Shenandoah Valley – 4-5
In Front of Charleston: Shelling of Secessionville-—Reply of the Rebels – 5
The United States Sanitary Commission – 5
Gen. Hunter’s Army: Remarkable Results of His Great Expedition to Lynchburgh – 5
From Sherman’s Army: The Assault on the Kenesaw Mountain – 5-6
Capture of the Tin-Clad Queen City by the Rebels – 6
The Onion Fund – 6
Gens. Grant and Lee: A Critical Estimate of their Abilities – 6-7
News from Washington – 7
Proceedings of Congress – 7-9
Editorial: The Day and the War – 9
Editorial: Our New Raids – 10
Editorial: Taxation, Direct and Indirect – 10
Editorial: The New Invasion – 10
Brooklyn News – 10