The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-06-14
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Dispatches from Generals Lee,
Beauregard and Johnson.
GENERAL LEE TO THE SECRETARY OF WAR.
HEADQUARTERS, ARMY NoRrHERN Va, ! r
= b. June l-P. M.
Honorable Secretary Of Var:
There has been skirmishng along the
lines to-day. ..a
General Anderson and General Hoke at-
tackled the enemy on their front this after-
noon. and drove them to their lntrench-
ments. ... -
This afternoon the enemy attacked Gem
eraI Heth. and were handsomely repulsed
by Cookies and Kirklands brigades. Gen
erals Breckenridge and Malone drove the
enemy from their front, taking about l5O
prisoners. ,.1..'
A force of infantry is reported to have ar
rived at Tunstall's Station, from the White
House, and to be extending up the York
River Railroad. They state that they be-
long to Buffers force.
Respectfully, R. E. LEE, General.
GEN. BEAUREGARD To GEN. BRAGG.
HANCOCK, June 2, 1864.
To Gen. Braxton Bragg; -
The enemy's advanced line of rife PITS
near Ware Bottom Church, were taken
this morning, with about one hundred prisr
oners from the Eth Connecticut. Our loss
is triAins. G. I. BEAUREGARD.
Arrival of Prisoners at Rich
mOnd.
From the Richmond Examiner, June T.
Fifty prisoners arrived from Lees army
on Monday. Among them are Second Lieu
tenant O. Campbell. of the Eigth New York
wounded; First Lieutenant B. B. Lothbury,
of the 1880 Pennsylvania, wounded; Lieu
tenant E Matthews, of the Veteran caysl-
~, and Capt. D. Beattie, of the 9th New
York. s..-.
Since June |, to the evening of June 5,
l.4OO privates and 46 officers had arrived in
Richmond as prisoners from Gen. Lee.
Grants Plans and Policy.
The Examiner, in an article discussing
Grants policy and probable course he will
pursue, says: Grants Qualifications signi'
lied what was predicted retreat. He
moves away from Lees front. Where is he
going? Ifhe cannot reach the city by Cold
Harbor, he cannot come at all on that side.
The better opinion is that he will now at
tempt the south side. But how is he to
reach it? Grant has tried his own plan,
tired McClellsn's plan, and may now try
Buffers plan, too, if he chooses, but will
find it no better than the others.
General Joe Johnston to Gen.
Bragg.
NEW HOPE CHURCH, June l, 1864.
To General Bragg: ......r
To day tho enemy is moving his forces
from his right to his left. Prisoners and
citizens represent the cavalry and transpor.
tation animals in suffering condition il
every respect This army is in healthy
condition. In partial engagements it has
had great advantage, and the sum of all
| the combats amounts to battle.
Reports from several sources represent
reinforcements Of seven or eight THOUSAND
men on their way from Decatur, Ala, tc
General Sherman. They are said to be o.
the Seventeenth army corps from the West
y.E. JOHNSTON.
REBEL VERSION OF THE BATTLE Or COLL
! HARBoR.
(From the Richmond Examiner June 81
We fear that Lieutenant General Grant
has resolved beyond the power of change
to avoid decisive engagement, and that
, the Army of Northern Virginia will never
have the honor of shooting as many Yam.
KEGS in one day, as it had on the 18th OF
last month in the county of Spottsylvania.
If he could be provoked to let out his full
length again, he would have been 80 pro.
voked on yesterday, when be had also every
opportunity that could, under any circrm.
stances, be desired by gentleman.
On Thursday evening he had been at
tackled in his intrenchments Three lines
of breastworks had been wrenched from
him. Seven hundred prisoners had been
captured with them. An important posi-.
ton had been taken, which forced him from
the high ground on our left, and bent his
own right back to the Pamunky. Here was
provocation. Observers of Grants career
anticipate glorious field day, on the NOR
row; but the anticipation was fulfilled in a
partial manner only, There was indeed, a
sharp struggle yesterday--the most sangui.,
nary fighting which has occurred since the
18th of May; but no general engagement
involving the whole forces of either army,
still less decisive battle. ..r. r..
So far as we are now informed, the affair
of yesterday was an attack by the enemy
in great force on our lines in front of Gaines
Mill and Cold Harbor. 1t was made with
energy. Ii must be admitted that Grant
has impaired, on some occasions, an impulse
to Yankee troops which no other Federal
general has yet given to them. But nei-
Their on this, or on any other occasion, has
It It, been the better for them or for him.
ihey rushed up yesterday msrning With
deep lines, and succeeded as at Spottsyl
vanla Court House, in bursting over one
part OF the Confederate bresstworks. Two
guns OF an artillery company from Rich
mond fell for moment into the enemv's
hands, after fifteen officers and men. work.
ing the said guns, had been killed and
wounded. But the result was different
from that of the similar incident at Snott.
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