Posted on 04/02/2025 6:47:42 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
[OFFICIAL.]
WASHINGTON, April 1, 1865.
Maj.-Gen. Dix:
The following telegram in relation to the military operations now going on at the front, was received this morning. Nothing later has reached this department.
EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War.
CITY POINT, Va., March 31, 1865 -- 3 P.M.
Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War:
At 12:30 P.M. to-day Gen. GRANT telegraphed me as follows:
"There has been much hard fighting this morning. The enemy drove our left from near Dabney's House, back well toward the Boydtown plank-road. We are now about to take the offensive at that point, and I hope will more than recover the lost ground."
Later he telegraphed again as follows:
"Our troops after being driven back to the Boydtown plank-road, turned and drove the enemy in turn, and took the White Oak road, which we now have. This gives us the ground occupied by the enemy this morning. I will send you a rebel flag captured by our troops in driving the enemy back. There have been four flags captured to-day."
Judging by the two points from which Gen. GRANT telegraphs, I infer that he moved his headquarters about one mile since he sent the first of the two dispatches. A. LINCOLN.
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE N.Y. TIMES
WASHINGTON, Saturday, April 1.
Advices from the Army of the Potomac to 10 o'clock Friday morning represent movements somewhat interfered with by the mud.
SHERIDAN had been heard from in close proximity to the Southside Railroad, having had one engagement with the enemy, in which he captured 500 prisoners. The latest reports placed him in the vicinity of Burkesville.
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Gen. Grant’s Army: Official Dispatch from President Lincoln – 2-3
Sherman’s Army: Location of the Corps Around Goldsboro – 3-4
The Attack on Mobile – 4
From Dakotah: About the Ex-Confederate Soldiers Serving on the Frontier – 4
The South: Rebel Views of the New Campaign – 4-5
News from Washington – 5
Editorial: The Overthrow of the Rebel Armies as Against the “Conquest of the South” – 5-6
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“Our troops after being driven back to the Boydtown plank-road, turned and drove the enemy in turn, and took the White Oak road, which we now have. This gives us the ground occupied by the enemy this morning.”
Pivotal moment.
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