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The Daily Dispatch: August 15, 1863., [Electronic resource], Army news. (search)
Army news. Yesterday was a day devoid of interest so far as news from the army is concerned. Parties direct from the army represent matters as continuing quiet, with no apparent prospect of an early change. By arrivals from Staunton we have a repetition of the statement that the Yankees have left the Valley, and that region is now open to the Potomac. The inference is that their forces which a short time back menaced Winchester have been withdrawn to the Eastern side of the mountains to swell the columns of Meade. In the neighborhood of Fredericksburg all is quiet, the pickets of the enemy being some miles distant on the Stafford side of the river.
The Daily Dispatch: August 15, 1863., [Electronic resource], From the Trans Mississippi.--speculations about Grants army. (search)
h of the defences of that place will warrant the reduction. What, then, becomes of the remaining twenty five thousand men left after the garrison has been supplied? It is more than probable they have gone, with Grant at their head, to reinforce Meade in Virginia, to accomplish the destruction, if possible, of that magnificent army of General Lee, whose destruction the Yankees so fondly think would accomplish the subjugation of the South. They are not prepared just now to attack Mobile, ase, it is in their programme; but they look first to the result in Virginia, and to the capture of Charleston, when the monitors now thundering at battery Wagner will salute the Gulf city from the ocean, and the army now gone to the assistance of Meade will attack it in the rear. This seems, from the stand point we occupy here, and from the limited data in our possession, to be a reasonable, if not a logical, deduction. But the field is open for speculation, and time alone can determine the a
The Daily Dispatch: August 15, 1863., [Electronic resource], Latest from the North. (search)
are said to be secessionists and a party of soldiers, in which five of the latter were killed and several of the former wounded. At Visalia great excitement prevailed, and further trouble was anticipated. The fight at Failing Waters. Gen. Meade, in an official dispatch to Gen. Halleck, asserts the accuracy of his dispatch announcing the result of the cavalry affair at Falling Waters. He says: I enclose the official report of Brig. Gen. Kilpatrick, made after his attention had bs of infantry, have been sent to Washington. Miscellaneous. Brigadier-General Gouverneur K. Warren, Chief of Topographical Engineers, has been promoted to a Major-Generalship, and is spoken of as the choice of the Army of the Potomac as Meade's successor. Col. Cornyn, of the 10th Missouri cavalry, whose recent raids in the Southwest have made him well known to the public, has been killed at Corinth by Lieut.-Col. Brown, of the same regiment. The steamer Kate, recently captur