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The Daily Dispatch: March 17, 1865., [Electronic resource], The news. (search)
The news. We have nothing of importance to notice on the lines in front of Richmond and Petersburg. There has been some shelling at Petersburg, and very heavy picket firing during each night. --Grant's troops have been in motion during the early part of the week. The impression was that he was shifting much of his army to the north side of the James. If he did so he has made no demonstration with them. Sheridan is reported to have left the country north of Richmond, and retreated in the direction of the Old Church, in Hanover, and the White House. We learn that the damage done by him to the James River Canal is much exaggerated in his report to Grant. This was to have been expected. There are matters of interest connected with Sheridan's movements which we might state, but for the fear of giving to the enemy some desired information which they cannot otherwise obtain. We feel that we cannot be too cautious in this respect. From Sherman. From Sherman we have n
The Daily Dispatch: March 17, 1865., [Electronic resource], Daring Outrage. (search)
The Yankee newspapers are in the habit daily of singing pæans to Grant as the greatest General in all creation, past, present, or to come. Upon what merit of his own this praise is founded, it would be difficult to determine. With an army three or four times as numerous as that of Lee, he started from the Rapidan last May, and after having lost, at the lowest estimate, 250,000 to 300,000 men, he is still exactly where he was when he crossed the James. He has not even been able to takelitary achievements. One is where the means are inadequate and the results great. This is the highest class. Another is, where the means are greatly superior, and where they are employed so skillfully as to brush out all opposition at a blow. Grant has achieved neither of these. He has permitted an enemy inferior in every respect but skill and courage, not only to set him at defiance, but on repeated occasions to inflict the most enormous loss upon him. He not only had not removed that obs