Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-05-19
!. NUMBER 2..7;s.
IS GENERAL GRANT CHANGING HIS LINE OF
OPERATIONS?

/, ~ GENERAL GRANT CHANGING HIS LISE OF
oPERATIoSs?
Jfis reported here. and believed 70 some
axtent. That General Grant Il really, making
arrangements to change his line Of opera
t;nna by a movement 10 the left towaris
Ro,yi,ny Green. and 90 foli''vino The track
Of General Sheridan's cavalry re- Saxtop's
Junction. This report, of course, Is based
upon the esuppositlon that It Is true that
General Sheridan mas seized the railroad
at that point In sunclent Iorce 70 hold IL;
and also upon the further. supposltion that
General Grant has ordered General smith
and General Gilmore 70 detach themselves
and their troops from Butter, ana 10 move 70
Hanover on the .Famunkey; and, nnaliy,
upon the third suppositlon tnat aiter tne
engagements ofthe 18th, 0enerai zee wonid
lind himself so much Weakened that ne
would retire at once TO ms lntrencnments
beyond the North Anna. IL ls peheve9
thatthe reasons that have. caused 0eneral
OraDt tnus 10 cHahgo hiS tihe VI VRSi"tvns
are those set forth in my letter OF May II;
and IN addition, the great losses that ne mas
sustained, amounting 70 one-thlrd OF nus
army; and convlction tnat Persistance
In foiiowing anu ngnting Lee during tnS
remaining sixty-ive miles OF "tDat line"
will entail upon him loss proportionate TO
that which he has suffered IN the nrst M
teen miles.
Those who take this view, are weil ac-
quainted with General Grant, and tney say
that, although he Is man OF unyielding
hrmness, yet that oDstinacy forms no part
OF ms character iney 90 not peiisye mat INA,
ne VIII III s Inv ~ ...
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HAD uhNEhAL LEE DEEM t.hiNfo'0nD
1t is understood here that General Lee
has received TWO heaVy relnlorcenents silice
the campaign began: one, OF twenty tnou.
sand troops IRON the west, which joined
him on the Stn, at opoltsylvahla; ana the
other, OF niteen thousahu troops unoer zen
eral Beauregard, who were sent up rom
Richmond on the lOth, and VINO wtrS TO oc-
cupy the defeilses on tne Nortn anna ulith
General Lee fell BACK TO that point; This
would make ms present iorce, alter deducl,
ing his propaoie losses IN the hlne Gays
campaign, ABOUT one hunoreu nIteen tnou-
sand orone hundred twenty-five tnousaEo
men: 1., 81
Ot one thing you may rest assureo' tne
rebel leaders are uetermiheu 10 give zen;
Lee enough troops 10 deleaI our armies anu
deiend hlcnmohd successfully, u tney nave
" IT. ..,d 70 tho,,y bova to Jeayo Ge, Toe
gni'.s,' la, hSraj, anonoh MON to Hold
Atlanta prohahJv NV this time Gen. Rut-
Ier heoins to comnrefend that the troops
he has found i'm his front are not Beaure-
cards. but some of those that "assisted". at
the capture of Plymouth; and that he has
not. and cannot, prevent Beauregard from
reinforcing Lee.
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ABILITY of LIE hrnhno -, ~ NN,Nf ''''
LEE -.
Before the actual opening OF the present
spring campaign Gen. Johnston had at Dai,
ton and near there over elgnty Thousand
veteran troops. The rumor that ne mas re-
treated from Dalton had It's origin IN the
fact that he has sent away twenty thousand
OF MS troops, as stated above, 10 reinforce
Gen. Lee.
II 1t is necessary 10 90 SO IN ORDER 10 de,
feat General era GranI, tne reDel leaders %ni
draw 2O,oovmore trooPs rom ueneTai oonn-
ston, anu tnen perhaps GeneraI johnston