THE NEW MOVEMENT: The Rebels Completely Deceived by Gen. Grant’s Strategy; The Second Corps Across the James (8/17/1864)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 8/17/1864

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Special Dispatch to the N.Y. Times.

WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Aug. 16.

Gen. GRANT has disappointed the predictions of the Copperheaded presses, to the effect that the fiasco of the 30th ult. would end the summer campaign. He has again began a formidable, and thus far, most successful and promising, movement against Richmond. On Saturday last a powerful force, under command of Gen. HANCOCK, was thrown across the river at Deep Bottom, the same point at which the same General made his feint movement previous to the late attack. It is known that the Second Corps, which had some time previously been sent to City Point, had been embarked in transports, to sail under sealed orders for some point unknown, but which conjecture surmised to be a dozen different places, anywhere from New-York to Charleston.

Instead of dropping down the James, however, the fleet on Saturday passed up the river and landed the troops at Deep Bottom, near Dutch Gap. TURNER's and TERRY's divisions of the Tenth Corps also crossed over to Deep Bottom on Saturday night. FOSTER's division, which had been for some time posted at Deep Bottom, was advanced by Gen. BIRNEY, a little after sunrise on Sunday morning, pushing the rebel line of skirmishers before them for some considerable distance, when the Twenty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment, Col. OSBORNE, charged and broke the rebel line, and captured 70 prisoners.

Meantime GREGG's cavalry had cleared the roads for HANCOCK, and he got his Second Corps into position on BIRNEY's right, on the New-Market Road, which leads from the vicinity of Malvern Hill directly to Richmond. The position thus taken by HANCOCK is about ten miles from Richmond. BIRNEY made an assault on his front, and carried a line of the enemy's works, which guard the approaches to Richmond in that quarter,

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The New Movement: The Rebels Completely Deceived by Gen. Grant’s Strategy – 2
Official Dispatch: The Capitulation of Fort Gaines—26 Guns, 874 Prisoners and Stores for a Year Surrendered – 2
Thanks to Admiral Farragut – 2-3
Deserters Coming into our Lines – 3
The Tallahassee – 3
Before Atlanta: The Assault of the 6th Inst. And Its Results – 4-6
News from Washington – 6
Editorial: The Trying Time for the Union Party – 6-7
Editorial: An Armistice – The Last Hope of the Rebels – 7
Editorial: The Victory in Mobile Bay – 7-8
Editorial: The Resumption of Operations on the James River – 8