Litchfield enquirer., 1863-07-02
The War News.

Decidedly. tho event of the week is the re, : ignation of Gen. Hooker. He has painfully disappointed the hopes and expectations of all those who had learned to regard him as q brave and persistent fighter, and has shown, even more than his predecessors, that he is not the man for the place. His successor is Maj. Gen. George G.Meade, lately Commander of the 9th Corps. Gen. Meade was born in Spain in lSl 6,entered the Military Academy at West Point from the District of Columbia, and was graduated there in 1929 and appointed sec ond lieutenant in the Third Artillery. He resigned his commission for q few years, and then he re.entered the service, and received the appointment of second lieutenant in the Typographical engineers, May l9, lS42. He was breveted first lieutenant for gallantry in Monterey in ls46, became lst lieutenant in August, 1851, and was made captain May l9. 1856. On the 3lst of August, 1861, he was commissioned brigadier.general of volunteers, and received the commission of major in the regular army in June, 1862. He commanded a brigade in McCall's division of Pennsylva- Dia reserves in the Army of the Potomac un- til September, 1862, when he took command of adivisionin the army corps under Gen. Reynolds. He was severely wounded in the battle of White Oak Swamp, June 30, 1862. On the 27th of December he superseded Gen.: ButterGeld in the command of the 9th army corps.
 An attempt was made to steal arevenus cutter from the hsrbor of Portland, Maine, On Friday night last. It seems that the officers of the pirate Tacony, gaining, by some means, intelligence of the fleet in search of them, decided to destroy her, and make their way along the coast, and cut out some vessel which would answer their piratical purposes in lieu of the Tacony. Lieut.: Read, of the Tacony, burned his ship, having transferred her armament to the schr. Archer. The pi- rates cane into Portland quietly, took posses sion of tho cutter on Friday night, and lowed her out to sea. Early in the morning the steamers Chesapeake and Forest City were armed, and started in pursuit. About twelve miles down the bay, they overlook tue rebels at ll:3O A. M. Becoming frightened, the pi- rates set fire to tie cutter, and endeavored to escape in their vessel. Most of them are cap tured, and are now held in close confinement. The Archer was also captured.
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 There appears to be no longer doubt that the whole rebel army under Lee, with the exception of Stuart's cavalry, is in Pennsylva- nia. Thirty seven thousand troops, with l04 pieces of artillery, had passed through Cham bersburgh up to Saturday last. Gen. Lee himself, with his Staff, was in Chamhersburgh on Saturday morning.
 - It nov lies in our power to utterly ami late this entire rebel army. Out of our abun- daics of men and means 1t is possible to arm and send men enough to meet and drive back Lee enough to surround and overvhelm him.
 And if ever people had encouragement to rise to heroic action it is now. The rebellion has gathsred itself up for last desperate ven. tnre. Lees army set upon by an aroused north. must retire insconfusion to fall into the hands of our army ia it's rear, IS large ss it. { sell. and burning to wipe ont old scores. Shall ] it be done ' Loyal citizens of America. al ldspends on yoI.
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