Posted on 10/04/2024 6:41:22 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
[OFFICIAL.]
FROM SECRETARY STANTON TO GEN. DIX.
WASHINGTON, Monday, Oct. 3.
A dispatch from Gen. SHERIDAN, dated at Harrisonburgh, October 1., 9:30 P.M., has been reserved by this Department. It states: "I have been to Staunton and Waynesborough with the Cavalry; destroyed the iron bridge on Sonth River at Waynesborough, throwing it into the river; also the bridge near Christiana Creek, and the railroad from Staunton to Waynesborough." Details of future operations are, for obvious reasons, omitted.
The following dispatch is the latest received from Gen. GRANT:
CITY POINT, Oct 2 -- 8:30 P.M.
Maj.-Gen. H.W. Halleck, Chief of Staff:
BUTLER on the right of the James River, and MEADE southwest of Petersburgh, occupy the same positions as yesterday.
There has been but very little fighting to-day.
A few prisoners have been captured.
Last evening BUTLER sent two brigade of infantry, with a little cavalry, within a few hundred yards of the inner line of works east of Richmond, meeting with no opposition.
U.S. GRANT, Lieutenant-General.
No dispatches have been received for three days from Gen. SHERMAN, but vigorous measures, which it is believed will be successful, have been taken by him to protect his communications from the rebel raiding parties under WHEELER and FORREST.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
From Our Special Correspondent.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE JAMES, Saturday, Oct. 1, 1864 -- A.M.
For purely military reasons there was no disposition yesterday, on the part of Gen. BUTLER, to advance the lines of his army, and the day might have passed uneventfully, had not the enemy assumed the offensive. Galled almost to desperation by the sudden advantage we have won -- an advantage which gives us a position almost within the purlieus of the rebel capital -- LEE moved up heavy reinforcements from the Petersburgh front
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Later from Memphis: Attack on Gunboat No. 30 – 3
From Missouri – 3
Victory in East Tennessee: Gen. Gillen Wins Another Victory – 3
New Rebel Steamer off Cape Race – 3-4
From Nashville – 4
News from Washington – 4
Editorial: The Foes of the Country McClellan’s Friends – 4-5
Prisoners North and South – 5
Editorial: A Few Words to Conservatives – 5
Our Army in Georgia – 4
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