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The Daily Dispatch: November 4, 1864., [Electronic resource], Stop the Runaways.--one thousand dollars reward. (search)
he War News. There was no fighting on the lines below Richmond yesterday. It was the first Thursday in six weeks that Grant has permitted to pass without a "reconnaissance in force." Perhaps the weather disconcerted his usual weekly arrangementsllows. We have not learned that this boast created any considerable excitement amongst our men. It is reported that Grant has transferred some of his troops from the north to the south side, and certain creaking and rattling of his pontoons du because they were sheltering themselves from the rain. The election is close at hand, and it will surprise no one if Grant gives us another contest for the Southside railroad; it will rather surprise us if he does not. From Petersburg. eased their force to a considerable degree, and that Fort Harrison is only held by a strong garrison, it is supposed that Grant is preparing for a grand blow elsewhere. General Lee is, without doubt, posted as to all movements; and our part is
The Daily Dispatch: November 4, 1864., [Electronic resource], Stop the Runaways.--one thousand dollars reward. (search)
instant, and of that evening. There is very little news in them.--Grant's failure is coming to light. In New York, on Monday, gold ran up The Herald says that, "somehow, the report has gotten abroad that Grant lost four thousand men." A dispatch from the army on the south sideg through different portions of the State. The Yankee press on Grant's "reconnaissance in force." The Yankee papers, editorially, handle Grant's reconnaissance very gingerly. The New York Times thinks it "was emetically a grand movement, having regard solely to the strengtcolumns." After following up the march of the different corps until Grant's line was formed, it says: The army thus disposed formed an ot crowned by a decisive defeat of the enemy." It thinks, too, that Grant was in a position to gain the Southside road by one more advance, amuch ground, therefore, goes to the credit of this attempt. If General Grant had chosen to persist, it is plain he might have brought on an