Posted on 04/01/2025 7:19:46 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Special Dispatch to the New-York Times.
WASHINGTON, Friday, March 31.
The latest intelligence from the Army of the Potomac is up to noon of yesterday, at which time no general engagement had been fought, and no fighting of any kind had taken place, save desultory skirmishing. The particulars of reported engagements given by the afternoon papers here are merely guesswork.
A large force is thrown to the west side of Hatcher's Run as a support to SHERIDAN's powerful column, which will strike for the Southside and Danville Railroads.
It is apprehended that this movement may precipitate an attack from the enemy, who, in order to interrupt SHERIDAN's operations, must come out of his works to make the attack.
On Wednesday night the rebels opened with their artillery on the line in front of Fort Steadman, conveying the impression that they were either expecting an attack or about to make one. It lasted two or three hours. But aside from a few wounded there was no other result.
This is all that there is from the front of a trustworthy character.
DETAILS OF THE MOVEMENT.
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Wednesday, March 29, 1865 -- Evening.
The route taken by a portion of this army is the same over which it has traveled several times heretofore, namely: the Vaughan and Halifax roads, running southwest across Hatcher's Run.
The column started at 3 o'clock this morning.
A large cavalry force, under Gen. SHERIDAN, took the Halifax road toward Dinwiddie Court-house.
The infantry column crossed Hatcher's Run on the Vaughan road, but met with no opposition until they reached within a short distance of the Boydtown plank-road, where the enemy's pickets were found and driven back.
GRIFFIN's division was sent up the Quaker road,
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Grant’s New Campaign: Grand Movement of the Army of the Potomac – 2
Affairs in Richmond: Specie and Banks – 2-3
News from the Southwest: Reward for Guerrillas – 3
From Fortress Monroe – 3
Capture of a Mail Train by Guerrillas near Green Spring – 3
Guerrillas Respited – 3
The Attack on Mobile: Movements Commenced in Earnest on March 22 – 3
Southern News: Reports From Virginia, North Carolina and Alabama – 3
News from Washington – 3-4
Editorial: Southern Loss of Confidence in the Rebel Leaders – 4
Editorial: The Advance of the Army of the Potomac – 4-5
Editorial: Mr. Greeley’s Peace Letter – 5
The Blockade-Running Interest – 5
I would describe Greeley as somewhat mercurial, in that as a Radical Republican he supported the Civil Rights 13th, 14th & 15th Amendments, but then turned against Pres. Grant's enforcement of Reconstruction, favoring a more lenient "home rule" approach toward former Confederate states.
In 1872, Greeley ran as a Democrat & Liberal Republican against Pres. Grant's reelection.
Greeley's letter, referred to here, sounds like something the 1864 Democratic candidate for president, Gen. George McClellan, might have proposed.
I do not comment often but I do like these posts from history. Now imagine how great our country could have been if the southern Slave owners actually hired Irish or others that would have worked those fields for glee. The south 20 years before the civil war are to blame for 90% of all violent crime in this country for the last 60 years. Yallal should halved picked your own damn cotton and not contributing turning this county into no go zones. How many Billions are spent on EBT free money and get paid to have kids with no fathers. Southern’s look in the face of your own mirror if you are afraid to walk in your own Neiborhood. While you chear on SEC football teams that are more than 99% black on Defense and about 75% black on offence. Jimmy the Greek touched on this delicate issue and he was canceled in the 80’s.
I would not blame today's Southerners for what happened in the 1860s and decades before or after, any more than I'd blame Southerners of the 1860s for whatever social pathologies we must endure today.
Any such inter-generational blame-shaming is only a short hop from demanding reparations, and that is pure insanity.
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