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The Daily Dispatch: September 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
From the latest Northern files received we copy such items as our lack of space will admit. The following is the latest intelligence from Sheridan: "Harper's Ferry, September 21, 1864. "To Hon. E. M. Stanton, Washington. "Reliable news from the front. Our army was crossing Cedar creek yesterday at 3 P. M. No fighting. The following list of rebel generals killed and wounded is correct: Generals Rodes, Gordon, Terry, Godwin, Read, Johnson and Fitz Lee. From all I can learn, the prisoners will approximate five thousand. The indications are that the rebels will not make a stand short of Staunton. They are evidently too much demoralized to make another fight. John D. Stevenson, "Brigadier-General." The schooner Mary B. Smith, which arrived at Several on Saturday, reports: "Spoke, September 7, latitude 44,40, longitude $7.50, fishing schooner William H. Lovett, of Marblehead, who reported that twenty miles to the eastward saw four or five vessels on fi
The Daily Dispatch: September 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], Fort Delaware. (search)
from the Shenandoah Valley relative to the battle of Monday. These telegrams give little information on the subject not already received here. Latest from the Valley — the victory most complete, Etc. Under this heading, the Baltimore Gazette has the following dispatch of Stanton. It contains all the war news to its date: War Department, September 20, 9 P. M. Major-General Dix, New York: The following is the latest intelligence received from General Sheridan: "Harper's Ferry, Virginia, 8 P. M., September 20--Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War: The body of General Russell has arrived here.--General McIntosh, with a leg amputated, has just come in. He is in good spirits. "Several officers from the front report the number of prisoners to be in excess of 3,000. The number of battle-flags captured was fifteen, instead of nine. All concur that it was a complete rout. Our cavalry started in pursuit at daylight this morning. General Sheridan, when las
The Daily Dispatch: September 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ut hors de combat, at least two hundred thousand men, of which number Grant himself lost, under his own immediate eye, at least one hundred and fifty thousand. That general himself acknowledges that he has been awfully beaten when he calls for one hundred thousand fresh troops to finish the job which he expected to finish last June. He is conscious that he does so, and endeavors to explain it away in conversation with one of the that stuck to him like a leech in his late journey from Harper's Ferry to Philadelphia. He only wants them, he says, to make the victory more complete, and to diminish the effusion of blood.--Those are the very objects for which all commanders seek overwhelming numbers. To state that object is merely to confess that his present numbers are insufficient to effect the object. Now, taking in Hunter's army and Butler's army, Grant had at least three hundred thousand men engaged in this enterprise. If he still wants one hundred thousand more, it affords the