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The Battle Renewed on Wednesday--Another Glorious Charge by Hancock--The First Line of Rebel Works Carried--The Result of the Day's Fighting Somewhat Favorable--The Battle Probably Renewed Yesterday. Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. SPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE N.Y. TIMES. WASHINGTON, Thursday, May 19. The skirmishing which began yesterday morning at daybreak settled into a heavy engagement, lasting through the forenoon, and culminating in another brilliant charge by HANCOCK on our right, when he drove the enemy a short distance, and carried their first line of intrenchments. Up to our last advices he had steadily defeated all attempts of the enemy to...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Wednesday Morning, May 18 -- 5 A.M. The struggle has this moment begun with skirmishing on our extreme right. We fully, expect a great, a bloody, and, we trust, a decisive battle to-day. WM. SWINTON. The Latest from Secretary Stanton -- Nothing from Grant, Butler or Sherman Yesterday -- Gen. Crook's Victory. (OFFICIAL.) WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, Wednesday, May 18 -- 10:45 P.M. To Maj.-Gen.Dix: We have no dispatches to-day from Gen. GRANT nor from Gens. BUTLER or SHERMAN. The reports from the Kanawha confirm the destruction of the bridge over New River, and the destruction...

No Late Military Intelligence in Washington-Steele's Reported Surrender Untrue-Sherman Vigorously Pursuing Johnston.[OFFICIAL.] WASHINGTON, May 17, 1864 -- 1:05 P.M. To Maj.-Gen. Dix: We have no official intelligence of any military operations since my last dispatch. The Richmond papers of Saturday state that Gen. STEELE had surrendered at Camden, with nine thousand men, to PRICE. This is known to be untrue. Gen. STEELE with his whole command, withdrew some two weeks ago from Camden, and is now at Little Rock, having defeated KIRBY SMITH on the way to Sabine River, as heretofore stated. Gen. SHERMAN was in close pursuit of JOHNSTON,...

Delay of Offensive Operations--Impassable Condition of the Roads--Fine Spirits of the Troops--Both Armies Concentrated on the Road to Richmond--Evacuation of Resaca by Johnston--Butler Still Operating Against Fort Darling.[OFFICIAL.]WASHINGTON, D.C., Monday, May 16 -- 5 P.M. Major-Gen. Dix, New-York: We have dispatches from Gen. GRANT to 8 o'clock this morning. He states that offensive operations have been necessarily suspended until the roads become passable; that the army is in the best of spirits, and feels the fullest confidence in success. The two armies are now concentrated on the main road from Fredericksburgh to Richmond. The operations of Gen. SHERMAN yesterday, and...

The Latest Army News--Advices from Gen. Grant to Sunday Morning--No more Flighting--News from Gen. Sherman to Saturday Evening--His Army Actively Engaged. (OFFICIAL.) WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, May 15, 1864 -- 10:15 P.M. To Major-Gen. Dix: Dispatches from General Grant have been received by this Department down to seven o'clock this morning. There had been no engagement for the last two days. Dispatches from Gen. SHERMAN, down to eight o'clock last night, state that his forces had been actively engaged during the day with advantage on our side, but no decided result. Nothing has been heard from Gen. BUTLER's operations since his...

[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....

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FIRST DISPATCH. [OFFICIAL.] WASHINGTON, Friday, May 13 -- 5.30 A.M. Maj.-Gen. Dix: Official dispatches just received by this Department dated yesterday, 8 A.M. at the battle-field, near Spottsylvania Court-House. They state that during the night, Gen. HANCOCK marched frown his previous position on our right and occupied the ground between Gens. WRIGHT and BURNSIDE; at daylight he attacked with his accustomed impetuosity, forcing the first and then the second line of the enemy's works, capturing the whole of Gen. EDWARD JOHNSON's Division and part of EARLY's, together with Maj.-Gen. JOHNSON, Gen. GEO. H. STUART, and from thirty to forty cannon....

TODD's TAVERN, Va., Sunday, May 8, 1864. The details of the wonderful three days' battle of the Wilderness, which closed last night just as the blood-red sun went down behind the margin of the Rapidan, will have given you some idea of the labyrinth of action through which its course ran, and the maze of tactics out of which it was resolved; but the battle of the Wilderness must remain, for the present, undescribed, for the reason that it is really indescribable. I remember a pregnant observation of Gen. ROSECRANS that with us war is only “bushwhacking on a large...

Over the course of my lifetime these are some of the film makers I have revered: Charlie Chaplin (more for his silent features than his talkies) and Shirley Temple, (both as a child and adult for the former and as a child only for the latter), Woody Allen (when i was a tertiary student in the 1970's and 1980's but less so now) Steve Bochco, primarily for the reinvention of what television can do through Hill Street Blues and Shawn Ryan and Micheal Ciklis for The Shield which I consider an even better drama than HSB and the best thing...

Advices from Gen. Grant to Tuesday at Five o'clock The Enemy Driven to their Breastworks Their First Line of Rifle Pits Carried-The Wounded. WASHINGTON, Wednesday, May 11. Major-Gen. Dix: Dispatches from the Army of the Potomac have just reached here, bearing dates to 5 o'clock P.M., of yesterday. Both armies at that time held their positions at Spottsylvania Court-house, without any material change. The enemy had been driven to their breastworks. The Sixth Corps, under Gen. WRIGHT, had carried the first line of the enemy's rifle-pits. There had been heavy skirmishing during the day. Our wounded had reached Fredericksburgh, and...

Lee Making a Stand at Spottsylvania -- No General Engagement -- Death of Maj.-Gen Sedgwick at the Hands of a Sharpshooter. WASHINGTON, Tuesday, May 10. To Maj.-Gen Dix: Dispatches have been received this evening from Lieut.-Gen. GRANT dated at 1 o'clock yesterday. The enemy have made a stand at Spottsylvania Court-house. There had been some hard fighting, but no general battle had taken place there. I deeply regret to announce that Maj.-Gen. SEDGWICK was killed in yesterday's engagement at Spottsylvania, being struck by a ball from a sharpshooter. His remains are at Fredericksburgh, and are expected here to-night. The army...

For Prayer and Especial Gratitude to God, in View of the Great Victory. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, May 9, 1864. To the Friends of Union and Liberty: Enough is known of army operations within the last five days to claim our especial gratitude to God. While what remains undone demands our most sincere prayers to and reliance upon Him, (without whom all human effort is vain,) I recommend that all patriots at their homes, in their places of public worship, and wherever they may be, unite in common thanksgiving and prayer to Almighty God. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.DISPATCHES FROM THE WAR-OFFICE.FIRST DISPATCH.The General...

WASHINGTON, Sunday, May 8 -- 9 A.M. We have no official reports from the front, but the Medical Director has notified the Surgeon-General that our wounded were being sent to Washington, and will number from six to eight thousand. To Gen. John A. Dix, New-York: The Chief Quartermaster of the Army of the Potomac has made requisition for seven days' grain, and for railroad construction trains, and states the enemy is reported to be retiring. This indicates Gen. GRANT's advance, and affords an inference of material success on our part. The enemy's strength has always been most felt in his...

During the time leading up to America’s Civil War, the United States was torn in two. Today’s division is not like that. This is not a time of breaking in two, but of splintering into thousands. We see the results in churches, families, courts, legislative bodies, political parties, businesses, and social movements. Former allies have now gone to war with one another. It’s as if Satan himself opened a great can of itching powder and cast it on the world. In this case, the itching powder has a name — deception. American conservatives are fighting one another over the wars...

WASHINGTON, Saturday, May 7. The statements which were received here today, and which are entitled to belief, are that Gen. LEE made a tremendous and violent attack to pierce our centre, hoping thereby to divide our forces and to secure a victory; but Gen. HITCHCOCK's corps came to the relief, and, amid a murderous fire, formed in line of battle, and thwarted the designs of the rebels. The loss was heavy on both sides. Gen. SHERIDAN was profitably engaged in another part of the field, and sent the Chief in command a message that he had routed STUART's cavalry. The...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) announced that the city’s Department of Corrections was prepared to imprison former President Donald Trump at Rikers Island. Adams’ comments came a day after New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, the judge presiding over Trump’s business records trial, threatened to jail the former president after finding him in contempt for violating a gag order for the tenth time.

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WASHINGTON, Friday, May 6. There is little doubt but that LEE is falling back from the Rapidan upon Richmond, having been driven to this by the flank movement of Gen. GRANT. The race will now be for Richmond. In the skirmish at Thoroughfare Gap, yesterday, an officer, was killed, on whom was found an order from LEE, directing all the guerrilla cavalry bands of Northern Virginia to return and form a junction with his army. The order was dated May 4, and is considered good evidence that GRANT's movement was a surprise to LEE, and that he is making all...

WASHINGTON, Thursday, May 5, 1864. The Army of the Potomac began its forward march on Monday. The crossing of the Rapidan was effected without opposition on Tuesday and Wednesday at Culpepper, Jacobs', Germanna and Ely's Fords. No rebels were seen, except a few pickets, who retired as we advanced. If LEE intends to make a stand this side of Richmond, it is possible he may be met near the old battle-ground of Chancellorsville, but it is the general impression that he has fallen back from his position on the Rapidan to Richmond, in order to protect that City from the...