Posted on 05/09/2024 6:31:18 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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 first blows, and their having failed, and our forces not only having maintained their ground, but preparing to advance, lead to the hope of full and complete success, for when either party fails, disorganization by straggling and desertion commences, and the enemy's loss in killed and wounded must weaken him more than we are weakened.
Nothing later than my last night's dispatch has been received from Gen. BUTLER.
A dispatch from Gen. SHERMAN, dated at 5 o'clock P.M. yesterday, states that Gen. THOMAS had occupied Tunnel Hill, where he expected a battle, and that the enemy had taken position at Buzzard Roost Pass, north of Dalton. Skirmishing had taken place, but no real fighting yet.
Nothing later from Gen. BANKS.
You may give such publicity to the information transmitted as you deem proper.
It is designed to give accurate official statements of what is known to the department in this great crisis, and to withhold nothing from the public.
EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War.
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Glorious News: Defeat and Retreat of Lee’s Army – 2-3
Washington Reports: Speculations, Rumors, &c. – 3-4
The Peninsular Movement: Capture of Petersburgh – 4-6
Gen. Sherman’s Army: The Union Forces Occupy Tunnel Hill – 6
Department of the South: Capture of a Rebel Scouting Party – 6
From Gen. Hooker’s Command: The Campaign – 6
From New Orleans: The Red River Expedition – 6-7
Aid Going to the Wounded – 7
News from Washington – 7
Editorial: The Great Campaign – 7-8
Editorial: The Louisiana Campaign – 8
Fatal Accident on the New-York and Erie Railroad – 8
Drowning Casualty – 8
Accident – 8
Prayers for the Wounded – 8
Drowned – 8
An Extraordinary Case-A Noble Act-Dr. Rowe – 8
We call this one The Battle of the Wilderness.
The New York Times-cheerleading for every unnecessary war for almost two centuries.
After all, it’s good for business.
Yes- “Defeat and Retreat of Lee’s Army”... did not occur.
Spotsylvania occurred with thousands of Union soldiers thrown up against the Bloody Angle and filling up a depression below the defensive line.
And, General Sedgewick killed with one sniper shot from a great distance away by a Confederate with a Whitfield. Just after he loudly laughed at a sergeant nearby for crouching down- saying “they couldn’t hit anything from that distance”. Wrong. A legendary shot that has yet to be credited to the person who made it. Mountain shooting.
No, THIS ONE is a pure lie.
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