Posted on 08/12/2024 6:48:57 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 -- 9:30 P.M.
To Maj.-Gen. Dix, New York:
No further intelligence has been received from Mobile, except from deserters, who report the capture of the city, but nothing official.
Gen. SHERMAN reports all well, and that he is knocking Atlanta with four and a half inch shells.
No movement has been made by our forces in front of Petersburgh.
Gen. SHERIDAN has not been heard from to-day.
EDWIN M. STANTON.
Secretary of War.
WASHINGTON, Thursday, Aug. 11 -- 10 P.M.
To Maj.-Gen. Dix, New-York:
A dispatch from Gen. GRANT, just received, reports the casualties by the explosion of the ammunition barge at City Point, on the 9th, as follows: Killed, twelve enlisted men, two citizens (employees), one citizen (not employed by the Government), and thirty-eight colored laborers. Wounded, three commissioned officers, four enlisted men, fifteen citizens (employes), and eighty-six colored laborers. Besides these, there were eighteen others wounded, soldiers and citizens, not belonging about the wharf. The damage to the property was large, but I have not the means of reporting it. The names of the killed and wounded have not been reported to the Department The cause of the explosion has not been ascertained.
EDWIN H. STANTON. Secretary of War.
Special Dispatch to the New-York Times.
WASHINGTON, Thursday, Aug. 11.
The dispatches from Admiral FARRAGUT suffer delay from the fact that it was necessary to bring the dispatch steamer from New-Orleans. They are now, however, hourly looked for. The Richmond papers of yesterday say that their loss in guns at Fort Gaines was 50, and that they lost about 600 prisoners there, and also an immense amount of stores of all sorts.
Gen. SHERMAN's dispatches state that all the Georgia militia is now in his front, under HOOD. It is understood that BEAUREGARD has
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War Office Dispatch: The Capture of Mobile Reported by Deserters – 2
The War in Georgia – 2-4
From the Southwest: Gen. Smith’s Expedition – 4
The Stoneman Raid: Object of the Expedition – 4
The War in Southeast Missouri: Fight at Osceola with Shelby’s Guerrillas – 4-5
A Remarkable Stroke of Lightning: The Whole Eighteenth Missouri Regiment Stunned and Blinded – 5
Affairs in the West: The Great Conspiracy – 5
Southern News: From Petersburgh – 5-7
Nothing from Sheridan – 7
Indian Hostilities – 7
Preparations to Abate Indian Atrocities – 7
Safety of Travel on the Overland Route – 7
News from Washington – 7
Base Ball: Excelsior of Brooklyn vs. Newark – 7-8
Editorial: The Campaign – 8
Railroad Accident – 8
Disaster to the British Ship William – 8
The Pennsylvania Legislature – 8
Amusements – 8
Recruiting and Boating at Poughkeepsie – 8
Cricket: Manhattan vbs. Satellite Club – 8
Fire in Broadway – 8
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