, 1864-05-15
General Buffers Army Attacking
Fort Darling.
Generals Smith and Gilmore
Carry q Portion Of
The Works.
kEIEFGECEkqEkTS FRDM BEAynE-
GARD DRIVER BACK,
Gen. Sheridan Reported to hare
Joined Gen. RutIcr's Forces,
Great Speech Of Gen. 0gletby at New
York for Lincoln and Grant,


WASHINGTON. May 18th.
Dispatches nom Grant, dated yesterday evening,
6 o'c1ock, have reached this Department. The ad-
vance OF uancock. e.tesaaY developed tho fact that
the enemy had fnllen back four miles. There Was
no engagement yesterday. We have no accounts
Of my general officers being killed In the battle OF
the preceding day..
L dispatch has Just been received from Gen.
Shermap, Gated near Resaca, May 14th. It states
that By the gank movement on Rceac., Johnston
had been forced to eFacnate Da1ton and our forces
were in his rear and flank. The weather YVES fne,
GEd the troops were In dne sptrits AL il working
and well Is fast as possible.
No intelligence has been received from General
Butler. The Eucnl1as hare broken the telegraph
unca between williamsburg aud old Jamestown
This is telsesed to be the REASON why no sepp1ts
have been received from him.
Dispatches from Gen. sieel report him TO be At
Woodstock. The 1umor that he had broken the
railroad between Lsnchburg aud Chatlottea.iue IL
not true
Our wounded arc coming In from Belle Plain
IS last as tie transports can bring them.
Grants army is well eupp1ied.
lsi:ned,3 EN-. s7As7os, sec'y Of War.
GEN. AEADE's G9NSGGRaTuI4ToRy ,SGg AD-
WAsHsoroS, May II, 1864.
Dispatches dated Headquarters Army Of the Po'
sonac, 18th, IL O'Clock. noon~ At Which time the
1cEeengcr to the Associated Pcss left, contain the
following:
HEApQuARrEns AEMF OF TIE PoToxAc, May 49,
4SotGhfs!-Th moment h8s arrived when Yonr
commanding General feels authorized to address
yen in terms Of concratulation. For eight days
ard nights, almost Without interulss1on In rain
and eunehiue, you hare been ealIant1y fighting
desperate foe tn positions naturally strong, and
r.. \ Ax.s. .f,Hr Sr$rr
compelled him to abandon his fertilization on the
Rapidan, to retire, and attempt to stop your on
ward prpgTes, and now he has abandoned the last
eutrenched position, 70 tenacious'y held, suffering
in all 1oes oils guns, e coorz, and 5000 pr1:on-
ers, including 1wo General officers.
Your h+roIc deeds ard noble endurance Of f.
tgue and privatjon will eyer be memorable. Let
Is return 1hanksto God for the mercy thus shown
us, and ask earnestly fur Its continuance.
Soldiers! your work IL not over. The enemy
r:ust be pursaed, and, II possible, overcome. The
courage and fortitude you hare displayed. render
.our commanding General confident that your f1-
ta1e etIorts will result In success While We mourn
TIC loss Of uany gallant comrades, let us remem-
Ter that4hc enemy must hayc..sufesed equal, ifnol
:.-eater, losees.
We shali soon receive reInfoscemcnts, which he
cannot expect. Let ua determine, then, to con-
tnue vigorously the work so well begun, and un-
der Gods blessing, in short time, the object Of
our ;aoora will be accomplished.
tslgned} GEO. G. MEADE,
Major General Commanding.
FROM OUR OWN REPORTER,
Especial Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune,1
4: WAsu1saTox, May II, 1900 p. m.
Your special correspondent sends the following:
GENERAL GEAsr's HEAoquAErEEs,
Friday, { p. H., May IL.
The battle was continued yesterday afternoon
until dark. Our left and centre atssnleht held the
ground gained In the forenoon, being mile and a
kalt In advance OF that occupied the night BEFORE
Our right did not ad7auce, 1t being Gen. Grants
purpose to bold the enemy in front Of that part Of
our line IN order to enable cs to make q movement
around the rebel left.
The enemy kept up demonstrations along our
whole front during last night. The purpose Of
this Was ascertained this morning by the discovery
that their main force had fallen back some dis
tance. Our skrmishers have been feeling the enc
my ali dSy, and the whole ntmy will make for
ward Increment before night.
Our loss yesterday is estimated 4. 1900, and dr-
ling the night about 800 more casualties occurred
The losses In the 5th Corps, In killed, wounded
and mitsns, did not exceed 200 yesterday, in7tead
o! 1000, a. the first exaggerated reports had IT.
Whether the enemy is mixing a bona dds 1etEeat
has merely fallen back to another position from
which 10 contest Our advance. ianot known at this
writing.
Nine thousand rebel prisoners Including those
captured yesterday, are on their vxy north. Ore,
four hundred captured officers have been sent to
Fort Delaware. Most Of the private. will probably
be taken to Point Lookout.
Reports continue to come In by rebel prisonczs
snd our own paroled men that Generals Len md
A. r Hill are wounded.
PHILADELPHIA. May 1.-THE Bu1etin has
snecial dispatch from Waahineton Announcing that
Gen. Gzant's whole army ia south Of the Po Rive.
tn purtuit Of Lee
The Ereatng zelegTupA has the following special
dispatch:
or TIE RATTLE FIELD, FmDAr, MAI ia, P. N.
Generals Ricketts, and Gibhon hare engaged the
sse. k9ato ~ 10 w. - 40. eas,s nns 81
5ee'e!eas, s,n' >"~ "'~ "A'1s &n' 'eoe's
o<so'' u' ef4e"a.u,'
"4thNo1os. AAs asuA@.. ts'e. aalels sac
that Lee IT nonnoeo ano.' nv" ~ 1nenmona: e% nts