Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1864-05-21
OFFICIAL DESPATCH FROM sECRE.
.- TARY STANTON.


.t- TARY STANTON.
WAsHrSoros. May 16, lao Pm.
To MGj. Gen. Cddealaier,. Philadelphia
Our latest dates from General Grants
headquarters are TO yesterday morning at 7
o'clock, 80 minutes No operations Of i'm
portance had occurred: Our reinforcements
were arriving.
Nothing has been received, from General
Butler since the telegfams of Saturday.
We have intelligence from Rcsaca up to
II O'Clock last night. o. f|
Our lines had advanced on the left, the
enemy's earthworks having been stormed.
General Stoneman is reported to have de-
stroyed wagon; train, capt0red two guns.
and thrashed Roddy
EDWIN NJ. STANTON.
INTERESTING STATEMENTS.
WASHINGTON, May 1G-A late arrival of
Belle Plain says that the surgeon of the Goth
New York, who was prisoner, was paroled
by General Lee, and allowed to disinter the
corpse of General Wadsworth, which had
been inferred in a coffin made by breaking
up a door. He was then passed by Gene
raj Lee, with the remains, over their lines
into ours.
He further states that General Longstreet
badly wounded in the shoulder. blade, which
Is shattered. .-.
He further confirms the fact that the para
graph from late Petersburg paper, alleging
that Lee was wounded, is untrue
According to his belief the rebels are very
advantageously posted, and will be dslodg-
ed from their present position only after very
desperate fighting, unless General Grant
turns it.
1t is now stated that General Owen, of
Pennsylvania. who has twice been reported
killed In this campaign, was alive yesteaday
He has had two horses shot from under him
the last one three days ago, which fell so
! heavily upon him as to render him insensi-
ble. He had to be carried to the hospital,
where he was lying yesterday morning, but
he was soon expected to be in the saddle
again.
Among the wounded officers in Seminary
Hospital, at Georgcton, not heretofore men
toned, is General Vim. H. Morris, of the
Brigade, 81 Division, 9th Corps.
BAD CONDITION OF THE ROADS.
The roads from Fredericksburg to Belle
Plain are in u horrible condition The wa
gons sink to the hubs OF the wheels, and
it takes six or eight horses to make the dis
tance.
! THE SIEGE OF FORT DARLING-TIIE
OPERATIONS OF TWO DAYS.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF VIRGINIA AND
NORTH CAROLINA, PRoCTERs CREEK,
May A, via FoRTREss MONROE, May 10
\. VI.
General Burham's brigade charged up,n
the enemvs outer works, at Procters Creek,
and carried the entire line section by section
AT 10 y. NJ. ouI batteries opened upon the
enemy, who had fallen back to line of
| heavy earthworks hear Fort Darling.
/ The enemy replied briefly until p. NJ,
/ when our batteries and sharpshootcrs silenc-
ell the enemy's guns, and nothing more was
heard from them during the day, but our
batteries continued firing until sundown.-
/ Our loss is $50 men, and we took 4 few
prisoners.
/ Major Aimsworth, of the 10th New lamp
shire, was wounded.
At z. NJ, a shell exploded the magazine
in Fort Darling.
. May l5th.-A small rebel gunhoat came
down opposite Fort Darling This morning,
and threw several shells into our cavalry,
alter which she retired Lieut.. Col. Pond,
OF the lst United States Cavalry, discovered
three torpedoes in the james river this morn
ing At noon the enemy came out of his
.ortihcations to attack llcckmans brigade.
p The fight lasted until 4 Z. NJ Our musket-
ry drove the enemy back to his works, and
the sharpshootcrs along the lines kept the
reJel artillery silenced. At Z. ". last
night the enemy advanced upon our lines
near the Petersburg turnpike. After sharp
engagement with musketry, We drove the
enemy back to his OrcastwOrks.
( BERMAUDA HUNDRED, Va, May lG, 0 A..
N., via Fortress Monroe, May IL, 8 p. NJ
Tie rebel ironclad Richmond came down
last evening and opened fire, but our feet of
monitors drove her back.
The Richmond Dispatch, Of the 18th, says
the funeral of Gen. j. +. g. Stuart took place
III Richmond on the 18Th.
/ 1t also says the. enemy have taken posses
sion Of the road leading 10 Louisa Court
House, and that the telegraph wires are all
cut down down to Lees army, 50 that intel
ligence has to reach the capital by very
circuitOus route.
. ANOTHER ATTACK on OUR FORCES.
/ LATEST FROM THE FRoNT, 10 \. NJ, May
, lO.-lhe enemy came out at daylight from
his earthworks and attacked our right wing
Our artillery opened and drove him back to
the Notifications with heavy loss. Our loss
was slight, being under cover No officers
were killed III the last engagement Rebel
prisoners say the enemy has lost more in
Killed than wounded in the last three DAYS
One hundred and forty -one wounded were
taken prisoners and placed in the Sth Army
Corps Hospital. Ninety were sent to IIamp.
ton, three fourths Of them being severely
wounded.
Everything is favorable General Butler
commands in person.
The steamer Thomas Collier has arrived
from Newbern, y. c., and reports all quiet
there.
/ WAsnINeToS, May 1G.--On the afternoon
, OF the llth instant Commodore Parker o!
the Potomac hotilla, received information
F., that party of rebels were engaged in plac-
iag .orpedoes in the RappahannocS and
Piankatack rivers, to blow up our gunboats,
and he Immediately ordered an expedition
to thwart their purposes. Colonel Draper,
of the camp at Point Lookout, was asked to
cooperate, and Immediately consented to 20
himself and with him about three hundred
colored troops from the camp, who embark
ed the same night.
! The troops were landed, with 80 seamen,
under command OF Captain Street, with boat
/ howitzers, and the peninsulas between the
Rappahannoek and Piankatank rivers and
Mob Jack Bay were pretty thoroughly
secured. The boats explored the Kappa.
hammock as high up rs Urbana, and the
whole length of the Piankatank, and sue.
I cecled in finding ten torne1oes fan, az