Posted on 04/22/2024 6:41:24 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Gen. GRANT left here for the front to-day, and Gen. BURNSIDE went by special boat to Fortress Monroe. It is understood that the recent development of the intentions of the rebels renders an early movement of the Army of the Potomac highly probable.
Such an event will be in accordance with the expressed desires of Mr. LINCOLN and other leading men here. Without going into details, it is enough to say that the Spring has not keen idled away, and that preparations for the impending campaign have been equal to the importance of the work to be accomplished. There is little doubt that the next thirty days will bring about a great change of some kind in military affairs.
WASHINGTON, Thursday, April 21.
The recent order of Gen. GRANT banishing sutlers from the army, rids it of over twenty-eight hundred supernumeraries.
The War Department has given orders for an addition of 15,000 beds to the present hospital accommodations here. All patients able to bear removal are to be sent North at once.
The report gains credence here among military men that LEE has sent part of his army into the Shenandoah Valley, with a view of compelling GRANT to divide his army by sending a force in pursuit.
SPECIAL TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH TO THE INQUIRER.
WASHINGTON, Wednesday, April 29.
A party of rebel deserters arrived here this morning, having left the rebel lines on Sunday last. One of them, an orderly sergeant in a Mississippi regiment, states that LEE's whole force on the Rapidan amounts to about sixty thousand men, consisting of two army corps, but that reinforcements were constantly arriving. LONGSTREET was reported to be at Charlottesville with his army, marching toward Staunton, for the purpose, it is thought, of advancing down the Shenandoah Valley.
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Signs of the Coming Contest: Movements of Gen. Grant and Gen. Burnside – 2
The Massacre at Fort Pillow: Additional Particulars of the Barbarities Perpetrated – 2
The Red River Operations: Further Particulars of the Battles – 2
From the Southwest: Forrest Retreating into Mississippi – 3
Division of the Mississippi: Important Order from Gen. Sherman – 3
The Army of the Cumberland: An Inebriated General – 3
The War in North Carolina: Rebel Attack on Plymouth – 3
Lieut.-Gen. Grant and Gen. Hooker – 3
The Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair – 3
The Maryland Fair – 3
The Chenango Disaster: Continuation of the Investigation as to the Cause of the Explosion – 3-4
The Coming Campaign: The Potomac Army – 4-5
From Washington: A Call for Two Hundred Thousand Six Months Men Suggested – 5-6
Proceedings of Congress – 6-7
The Metropolitan Fair: Another Very Successful Day – 8
Editorial: The Administration and Lieut.-Gen. Grant – 8-9
Editorial: France and Mexico – The Catholic Faith and the Catholic Powers – 9
Penny and Two-Penny Bits – 9
Amusements this Evening – 9
Amusements – 9
Mysterious Death of a Young Woman – 9
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