Posted on 05/12/2024 6:34:21 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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 during the night some were brought up to Washington.
The Surgeon-General reports that ample supplies of nurses, surgeons and medical stores have gone forward.
There has been nothing heard from Gen. SHERMAN or Gen. BUTLER since my last dispatch of yesterday.
EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War.
Second Dispatch Nothing Later from the Army of the Potomac nor from Gen. Butler Intelligence from Gen. Sherman.
WASHINGTON, May 11, 1864.
To Maj.-Gen. Dix:
No intelligence has been received by this department from the Army of the Potomac since my dispatch of this morning.
A dispatch from Gen. SHERMAN, dated at Tunnell Hill, May 10, 7:30 P.M., states that MCPHERSON had not attacked the enemy at Resaca, having found their position strongly fortified, and had taken his position at Snake Creek Gap.
Gen. SHERMAN was in front of Buzzard Roost Gap awaiting the arrival of a part of his forces.
This dispatch came by way of Knoxville and Cumberland Gap, having been delayed over twenty-four hours in consequence of a heavy storm that broke down all the lines south of Nashville.
No intelligence has been received to-day from Gen. BUTLER's command, except that three hundred rebel prisoners,
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