Posted on 08/30/2024 5:07:05 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
[OFFICIAL.]
SECRETARY STANTON TO GEN. DIX.
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, Aug. 29, 1864.
Major-Gen. Dix:
The capture of Fort Morgan is fully confirmed by dispatches from Gens. GRANT and SHERMAN, who derive their information from Richmond and Mobile papers.
It appears from Gen. GRANT's dispatch to the President, just received, that Fort Morgan was surrendered:
CITY POINT, Aug. 29.
A. Lincoln, President:
Since my dispatch of this morning I have received the Richmond Sentinel of the 27th. It contain the following dispatch:
FROM MOBILE.
"The report of the surrender of Fort Morgan was most unexpected, and we await an explanation of so unfortunate an occurrence."
The press of Mobile is hopeful and confident of their ability to hold the city.
(Signed.) U.S. GRANT, Lieut.-Gen.
The latest intelligence from the Shenandoah Valley represents that a large part of the rebel force has been withdrawn toward Richmond.
The latest reports from Gen. SHERMAN represent that thus far his recent movements to occupy the rebel lines of supply have been successful.
EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War.
WASHINGTON, Monday, Aug. 29.
Dispatches received in Washington from "Before Atlanta." state that Atlanta papers of the 27th inst. announce that Fort Morgan surrendered to our forces, with all its garrison, including Gen. PAIGE, guns, munitions of war, &c.
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Farragut: Fall of Fort Morgan – 2
Gen. Grant’s Army: Our Loss in Thursday’s Battle, 2,000—The Rebel Loss, 5,000 – 2
From the Mississippi: Operations of Guerrillas – 2
From New-Orleans: Arrival of the Fung Shuey – 2
From South Carolina: Arrival of Six Hundred Rebel Officers – 2-4
The Tallahassee: Her Depredations Among the Fishing Fleet – 4
Railroad Accidents, &c. – 4
From the Shenandoah Valley: an Advance – 4
Southern News: The Reported Capture of Fort Morgan Confirmed – 4
The Military Field: A Cheerful, Hopeful and Truthful Survey of It – 4-6
News from Washington – 6
Editorial: Rebuke of the Wade-Davis Manifesto – The People and the Coming Election – 6-7
Editorial: The Aspect of Affairs in the Field – 7-8
Editorial: Copperhead Theology – 8
Editorial: International Comity – Protection for Emigrants – 8
De Omnibus – 8
Secretary Seward Arrived in This City – 8
Amusements this Evening – 8
Some one should write a book about the unexpected events of the Civil War. I bet it would sell really good.
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