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The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1863., [Electronic resource], From General Lee's army. (search)
From General Lee's army. [from our Own Correspondent.] Army of Northern Virginia, Near Orange C. H., Dec. 8, 1863. The situation seems to be this: Meade finding himself unable to force General Lee back towards Richmond by a mere display in his front, has retired certainly behind the Rapidan, and report says he is tearing up the railway between the Rappahannock and Rapidan rivers, and preparing to go behind the Rappahannock to winter his army. Our army is in its old position and preparing comfortable quarters for the winter, if, indeed, Generals Lee and Meade shall permit them. The roads, however, are now as hard as pavements and the weather though quite cold has been clear for the last few days, and the winds have been just high enough to assist the sun's rays in the drying process. A Post Office has recently been established to go along with this army as it moves. Captain John L Eubank, formerly in charge of Eubank's battery in this army, and Secretary of the las