Posted on 05/15/2024 6:47:48 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
[OFFICIAL.]
WASHINGTON, May 13 -- 12 o'clock, Midnight.
Maj.-Gen. Dix:
A dispatch from the Commissary of Prisoners at Belle Plain, announces the arrival there of over 7,000 prisoners, including 400 officers, with Maj.-Gen. Johnson and Brig.-Gen. STUART.
WASHINGTON, Saturday, May 14.
Major-Gen. Dix:
Dispatches from Gen. GRANT, dated yesterday evening, at 6 o'clock, have reached this Department.
The advance of HANCOCK, yesterday, the developed fact that the enemy had fallen back four miles.
There was no engagement yesterday.
We have no accounts of any general officers being killed in the battle of the preceding day.
Col. CARROLL was severely wounded.
A dispatch has just been received from Gen. SHERMAN, dated near Resaca, May 14. It states that by the flank movement on Resaca, JOHNSTON had been forced to evacuate Dalton, and our forces were in his rear and flank. The weather was fine, and the troops in fine order. All working well, and as fast as possible.
No intelligence has been received from Gen. BUTLER.
Guerrillas have broken the telegraph lines between Williamsburgh and Old Jamestown. This is believed to be the reason why no reports have been received from him.
Dispatches from Gen. SIGEL report him to be at Woodstock. The rumor that he had broken the railroad between Lynchburgh and Charlottsville is not true.
Our wounded are coming in from Belle Plain as fast as the transports can bring them.
GRANT's army is well supplied.
EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War.
WASHINGTON, May 14, 1864 -- 9:50 P.M.
Major-Gen. Dix:
The following telegrams have just reached this department from Gen. BUTLER.
No other reports have been received since my dispatch of this afternoon.
EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War.
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The Victory: General Meade Reviews the Situation – 2
Reports from Washington: Dispatches to the Associated Press – 2-4
From Gen. Butler: No Fighting on the 11th or 12th inst., and all Quiet Since – 4
Exchange of Prisoners: Declaration of Exchange of Prisoners of War – 4-5
Reports from Philadelphia: Grant’s Army Said to be South of the Po – 5
The Wounded: The Sanitary Commission – 5
From New-Orleans: Arrival of the Transport Gov. Chase, with Sick and Wounded Soldiers – 5
From the Red River: Situation of Banks and His Forces – 5
From Fortress Monroe-Belle Boyd Turned up Again – 5
Gen. Owen Not Dead – 5
The Wounded: List of the Wounded Distributed Through the Washington Hospitals – 5-8
POSTSCRIPT-Highly Important: Glorious Work of General Sheridan – 8
A Present from Gen. Grant to Gen. Rawlins – 8
From Washington: Dispatches to the Associated Press – 8-9
Editorial: Eight Days’ Retrospect – 9
Editorial: “On the Future of Naval Attack and Defence” – 9-10
Past and Present – 10
Editorial: The City Railroads and Cruelty to Animals – 10
Lemons for the Soldiers – 10
Obituary: Brig.-Gen. Fessenden – 10
Photography and the Fair – 10
Imported Luxuries, and How to Diminish Their Consumption – 10
An Example – 10
This is right in the middle of the battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, yes?
A few days after. The worst of the fighting was on the 12th. The NYT is still catching up. Here’s where my Harper’s Weekly thread picked up on that day => https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4236199/posts?q=1&;page=51#59
Look at that Mule Shoe salient. Really sticks out, doesn’t it?
I laughed. That's because Gen. Benjamin Butler was still figuring out how to do as little as possible at Bermuda Hundred.
The last observation a lot of men on both sides ever made.
Yes, especially at the Bloody Angle.
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