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The Daily Dispatch: June 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
day to Wednesday is but three days, but in that brief time the column under Hunter, Crook and Averill are placed in position to cover Washington from any enterprise Lee might be desperate enough to attempt. Grant once more moves by the left flank beyond Lee's elaborate obstructions; Gen. Butler's column is liberated so as to take the offensive; Smith and Hancock are battering down the defenses of Petersburg, and Gen. Grant's whole army is moving against Richmond, on the south side of the James river, and on its weakest side! If the scribes of the American press had not made a strong word feeble by their abuse of it, we should be tempted to call such far-reaching combinations, such rapid movements, and such brilliant results, truly Napoleonic. It has been observed that some people thought Gen. Grant had come to a stand still on the Chickahominy for a considerable part of the summer, but those who had studied his other campaigns felt well assured that he would half but a very
The Daily Dispatch: June 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
prevented the success of our cause under Gen McClellan, and with what effect the present position of the contest shows. Had Gen Grant been left alone, with his simple but admirable plan for the destruction of Lee's army, he would have put the James river and the Valley columns under staunch military men and not under politicians. With the Valley column under Bunter, and the James river column under Baldy Smith, the work raid out for those columns would have been efficiently done, and the camJames river column under Baldy Smith, the work raid out for those columns would have been efficiently done, and the campaign would have been gloriously ended twenty days ago in the rout of Lee's army. But the President forced upon him for the commanders of those columns men of known and proven incompetency; men who, tried many times, have failed always; men without knowledge or common sense, without genius or judgment, without anything whatever but political influence. As an inevitable consequence, neither column even approached its object; we the result of the desperate fighting on the Rapidan by their fail
The Daily Dispatch: June 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], The fight near Lynchburg. (search)
the accounts were highly favorable, and it was stated that we had taken several hundred prisoners, and were driving the enemy, with the prospect of making important captures. A demonstration on the Southside Railroad. In this paper yesterday we mentioned that a raiding party of the enemy's cavalry passed near Campbell Court-House, Saturday, moving in the direction of the Southside Railroad. This statement proved to be correct, and the enemy designed to destroy the bridge across James river, six miles below town. They reached the vicinity of the bridge, and finding it too heavily guarded to be successfully attacked, they retreated without an assault, and rejoined the main body of their forces some time Sunday morning, while on the retreat towards Liberty. Several stragglers were picked up by our scouting parties and brought into town Sunday. The Virginia and Tennessee road. The damage done by the Yankees to the Virginia and Tennessee railroad, while not fully ascer