The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-05-24
FHch GENERAL LEES AnmY.
IFsoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. |

APaT OF NnaTHERs vtsefaIA, I
Nea: Spois} iVania II, May Bun, lc64
Grant has shown signs Of advance for the past
two days. He is doubtless blj:Hg his time ill tie
r-inforcemaf'.s, OF which Mad speass conf
IDENTITY, shall have arrived. Meantime, for the
ser-ntM doy, the brave cohorts Of The South have
with nnbraken front, in line OF battle and on the
march, opposed the eremy and beaten them back.
One other event occurred yesterday, which, e1s
pIssant will relate. About three O'Clock yes
tsrday afternoon, Gen. Eweil moved forward wi III
sufficient iorce in order 10 feel the enemys posi-:
tion on their extreme right, our left General T..
struck Il cir columns near the main road leading
from Fredericksburg TO Spotsylvania Court House,
some eight miles from the former and three miles
from the latter place, abou, half past four O'Clock
in The afternoon. From this time until niEe
O'Clock at night, the battle ragged aud roaIed
most turionsiy. The enemy having repulsed QUE
attack attempted in turn to press U.S. when they were
hurried back mos: successfully. At one time our
line 0i skirmishers reached the eaemy's wagon
were forced to give back wi,hou, dong them any
harm save shooting and capturing few mules -
About nine O'Clock the fighting ceased, and boys
fell back 10 their enrenehed position. During tie
engagement We lost some two hundred and fifty
men killed, wounded, and missing. Gen Ewell's
horse was shot from under him, giving him a hard
fall but he is ali right again, and is to day in the
saddle.
tits conieciured that the enemy must have lost
fully five hundred in killed aud wounded Al Ieast
their prisoners, OF whom we captured eighty or
Einety, SO estimate The force which we encoun-
tered aud which was found tc be strongly cntrench-
ed, consisted of Haneock7s and Burnsides's corps.
On the whole, we neither gained nor lost by this
little aff1ir The troops engaged In the expedition
but a days rest will put them all right again.
The weather to day is very WARN, and the roads
are drying quite fast It seems to me almost
less To repeat that the troops In the best posi-
bic Spirits notwithstanding the fatigue, heat and
exposure to which they have been subjected for
the last three weeks; and yet, lest If fat TO speak
Of tue morale Of the army, wrong intesences may
be drawn, will say that the spirits Of all, officers
aud m-B, most b0uyant, and chat have Jet 10
meet with the first soldier who LACKS confidence
either in Gen. Lee or our final suecess.
The atmosphere is fully impregna,ed with the
stench arising from POI tons 0i the battle field over
which have, passed, aud which Is Ia close pi0s-
im:fy 10 our lines. Gfsut, in every instance, has
left his dead unbuited, and his wounded uncared
tor, whist nearly all OF slain have been buried
and our wounded well treated.
Grant seems 10 be still moving around towards
our right. As predicted in previous letter, he
will do nothing just yet bat will wait until his NJ
mes are recynled, his c0niU,issariat supplied, and
haste another HecatOnb OF victims ssbMichered to
make q Lincoln holiday
Ouf losses in the nights since tbs caisp paign begun
will, am told, foot up ahOut twelve Thousand
Killed and WOaHded, Of which three thOusaud will
be able to return 10 duty in thirty days. N