Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-05-13
The Movements of HoOker's Army.

The New York Times has detailed
and connected account of the movements
of the Grand Army from Monday morn
ing until Saturday night:
MONDAY
Ii is Monday morning, (April 81 and
the army is all in motion. The vast araa
it covers of miles and miles in extent is
an animated scene of hustle and stir. The
camps are broken" and the comfortable
log huts and Winter-quarters, in which
the men have been lodged for months,
are abandoned. Columns of troops are
moving on this road and that, and on a
dozen different roads-carefully conceal
ing themselves from the enemy's view by
marching through the woods and behind
the knolls and ridges of the broken ground
along the Rappahannock. Long trains of
artillery, pack mules and ambulances add
their own features of the imposing and
the picturesque 10 the scene.
TUESDAY.
By Tuesday morning, three of the seven
corps Farmee composing the Army Of the
Potomac-namely, the First Corps, Maj.
Gen. Sedgwick, had been moved from
their camps the night before and had TAX
en- up their positions at the same point of
the Rappahannock where Gen. Franklin
had his crossing at the time of the battle
Of Fredericksburg-namely, two miles be-
low that city-and covered from the enc
my's view by the curtain of hills that
fringe the Rappahannock. While these
movements are going on, other columns,
consisting of the corps ofGen. Meade, THE
Fifth and Gen. Slocum, 1.-THE Twelfth,
are moving up different roads. and have
taken up positions on the Rappahannock,
i'm the neigh borhood of Banks and United
States fords, which are respectively eight
and eleven miles above Fredericksburg.
This state of things left it all in doubt
were the main attack would be made, as
it was not supposed Hooker would make
an attack at two points fifteen miles apart.
and thus allow the rebels holding the
cLori of the circles 10 attack us on the are
and by falling first on one side and then
the other destroy us 10y detail.
Before dawn of Tuesday the pontoon
boats had been taken from the wagons, a
couple of miles below Fredericksburg,
and under cover of a very heavy fog, were
carried noiselessly down on mems shoul-
ders to the rivers brink and deposited in
the water. They were Immediately man.
ed by the troops of RusselPs bridge,
BrooBes' division, Sixth Army corps,
and rapidly pushed over, in the manner
taught us by Gen. Hunt at the time of the
crossing in December. The rebels here,
as at every ford for forty miles up and
down the river, were posted along the
rivers margin in double lines of rifle pits,
containing perhaps, couple of hundred
men each. At the lower crossings, how
ever, they made but feeble resistance,
and in a few moments our men were in
possession of both lines of rife pits, with
the loss of half dozen men.
THE CIRCUsING.
Thus far but one division Of each Of the
two army corps had been sent across the
river-the remaining four divisions stayed
on the other side. But they were not
idle. They were put in motion on the
hill-slope on one side of the river, and in
plain view of the enemy were marched
along the crest of the ridge and down, as
though TO the crossing. But, instead Of
crossing, they were quietly drawn up back
through gully, round the rear Of the
ridge, and round again to its top. They
made the appearance of an army OF at
least a hundred thousand men, and must
have presented the appearance of mass
ing on our side, preparatory TO a passage
of the river under cover of the night
The same "circosingp was performed by
the artillery, the same by the wagon
trains.
MOVEMENTS or THE RIGHT.
Duing Monday, Howard's corps, (the
Eleyenth) Slocum's corps. (the Twelfth
and Gen. Meade's, the Fifth had been
moving to the upper fords of the Kappa
hammock. On the night of Tuesday, be-
tween 10 P NJ. and A. NJ, Howard's en-
tire corps crossed the Rappahannock on
the pontoon bridge at Kelly's Ford, q
miles above Falmouth At daylight Gen.
Slocum's corps followed, and during the
forenoon Gen. Meade's corps was thrown
across. at-=
This column then struck direct for Ger
mania Ford on the Rapidan River, distant
twelve miles, one of the main afiuents OF
the Rappahannock, into which it empties
at United States Ford. General Meade,
however, instead of taking this direction
on passing the river, struck road diverg-
ing eastward, and made Ely's Ford on the
Rapidan, eight miles nearer than Germa-