The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-05-26
War Department Official Dispatches.

of Eagi,eering-Banks Safely he
treating toacard the Nississippi-La
ter from Sherman-He as all Ready
to- Resume Operations-Hs Losse'
more than Replaced-No Later from
Grant or Butler Oar Arnaies .Stron
| ger and better Supplied now tha,
achen Grant opened the Campaign.
Washington, May 23, 1864.
Maj. Gen. Dix: Dispatches from Maj.
Gen Candy, dated "Mouth of Red River
at Midnight, May 15," state that Admir-
al Porter has just arrived. The remain
der of the gunboats will arrive tonight
Gen. Banks will probably reach Semmes
port, on the Atenafalaya, tomorrow.
A dispatch from Admiral Porter, da
ted con board the flag g-ship Black Hawk
mouth of Red River, May 16," states
that the portion of the squadron above the
falls at Alexandria have been released from
their unpleasant fix, owing the indefat.
igable exertions of Lieut. Col Baily, Act
ing Engineer of the 18th Army Corps
who proposed aud built tree-dam of 60C
feet across the river at the lower falls
which enabled all the vessels to pass in
safety, the back water of the Mississippi
reaching Alexandria, and allowing them
to pass over all the shoals and the obstruc.
tions planted by the enemy to point OF
safety. Lieut-Col. Bailey will be i'm
mediately nominated for distinguished
and meritorious services.
An unofficial report from Cairo, dated
May %, states that the army and gun
boats were all safe at the mouth of the
Red River and Semmesport.
Major-Gen. Sherman, by a dispatch
dated $50 pm, last night, reports that he
would be ready by this morning to resume
his operations. Returned veterans and
regiments, he says, have more than re-
placed all losses and detachments
We have no official reports since my
last telegram from Gen. Grant or Gen.
Butler.
Official reports of this Department
show that within eight days after the bat
tie at Spottsylvania Court House, many
thousand veteran troops have been for
warded to Gen. Grant.
The whole army is amply supplied
with full rations of subsistence.
Upward of twenty thousand sick and
wounded have been transported from the
field of battle to the Washington hospi-
tails, and placed under surgical care.
Over eight thousand prisoners have
been transported from the field to prison
depots, and large amounts of artillery and
other implements of an active campaign
brought away.
Several thousand fresh cavalry horses
have been forwarded to the army, and
the grand Army of the Potomac is now
fully as strong in numbers, and better
equipped, supplied, and furnished, than
when the campaign opened.
Several thousand re-inforcements have
also been forwarded to other armies in
the field, and ample supplies to all.
During the same time, over 30, 1000 vol
unteers for 100 days have been muster
ed into the service, clothed, armed, e.
quipped, and transported to their respec-
tive positions.
This statement is due to the chiefs of
the army, staff and bureaus, and their re-
spctiye corps, to whom the credit be-
longs. f. NJ. STANTON.
Secretary of War.
The 4drance on Wcdnesday-Tpo lines
ofthe Enemy's Works Carried-The
Third too Formidable for Assault.
Our Losses 1000.
Headquarters Army of the Potomac, !
6p. m, May Is, 1864.
Early yesterday it was determined to
lttack this morning. AT first the deci-
non was to try movement upon the
eft, with the view of turning the enemy's
light; but late in the afternoon. it being
pparent that the enemy must have seen
is moving troops to mass upon the left,
nd the line of attack not proving as ia
orable there as had been expected, the !
Ian OF attack was recast, aud the I'd and +
tn Corps were moved during the night
the extreme right. The assault was 8
be at sunrise, Wright at the right, +
yoAHAn5 Will Ills leIG, ana burn +
de and Warren still further to the left. ;
the order they are named. The strug-
lie actually begun soon after daybreaE h
has proved abortiye. The losses of I
he day | estimate at 200, and we hold b
0 more ground than in the morning =
he days work has been unsuccessful. :
The I'd Corps, having less distance to "
lss, and being first placed on the road .,
ere soonest in position, and opened the
Ill. The divisions of Barlow and Glib
m, with the Corcoran Legion, lust
ought up from Washington, moved up-
the enemy's works Immediately, while d
e 9th Corps, Feill's and Ricketts, diyi-
'ns, did the same mon ent later a lit
further to the right. Each of the
ar divisions easily carried the two lines A
works, and each of the four diyisionl ii,