Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-05-16

rebels. tina, Gen Grant was obliged TO send Tor
burDside's corps-for the reserve eorps-heiore
the close OF the day. We bad. indeed. he'd or
own, though at a fearful sacrifice. without that
corps But the fact that Gen Grant bad corps
de reserve alone saved his overland campaign
from sharing The fate of Pope's and Hookers.
and Burnside's IL was the presence OF that
corps alone which enabled Gen. Grant 70 assume
the offensive on Friday Having commenced the
movement on Richmond. Gen. Grant could not
now draw back. But il was the presence OF
burnslde's corps alone that made him strong
enough TO make the attack which he did on the
9th. This fact, among 9th rs. will he concealed
as long As possible, but il wil come out at last.
GENERAL Ike LEARNS WHAT GENERAL GRANT IN
TENDS TO DO on THE PENINSULA
On the morning OF the 9th. General Lee re
ceived definite intelligence Of the movements on
the Peninsula. All the troops and Union yes
sells on the York river had been withdrawn down
mat stream, and had sailed up the James river,
and on the afternoon of the 5th bad been landed,
not on the left but on the right bank of the
James river above City Point. Ii must have
oeen with sigh of relief that General Lee read
the dispatch that conveyed 10 him these udinFs,
Tor II was as much as saving that Grant had
oiundered IN his strategy, and had taken false.
ana to him fatal step For upon that landing
depends the fate of the campaign Gen Grant 5
plan Tor the campaign on the Peninsula was now
fully developed Ii was the plan which Gen.
Lee hoped, but hardly dared to believe $50 high
IL his respect for General Grant, that the latter
would adopt: and il relieved the former at once
from ali anxiety. Buffers troops might safely
now be left TO the care of General Beauregard;
and all that General Lee need do on this day
was to hold General Grants army in check. and
for Fen hon NM IN
advancing any further southwark. There was
no danger now Of junction between the
Union troops on the Rspidan and those south OF
the James river.
LEES ARMY or THE DEFENSIVE.
On the 9th, therefore, Gen Lee gave his men
the easier task (easer compared with their efforts
oil The day beiore) of simply repellng the attacks
made upon their intreuched lines by the Union
troops The immense extent and great strength
OF these lntrenchments enabled them TO do this
with comparatively little loss, while the Union
army again suffered severely Here again. when
the full accounts come in, the country will be
appalled, at the long lists of killed and wounded
IN frutless attempts to force the enemy from his
position. Tor at night Gen Lee held his position
mistaken.
LEES STRATEGIC MOVEMENT.
That night, however his preparations having
been all made beforehand, he moved with his
whole army. III silence and in perfect order, to
bis second defensive line, on the right bank OF
the North Anna river. There his army is al
present entrenched. and there Gen. Grant will
have to advance to fight him. This, as you will
see by my letrer of April 2S, is what Gen. Lee
Intended from the first. And here Gen Grant,
troubles about his supplies will begin. He will
be too far from Washington to receive them
overland; and to make Aqua creek his base will
be open to the same objection He will be forced
to use the York river and one of its branches
and to do this with absolute security will require
the presence OF nearly all the gunboats now in
the james river
GENERAL LEES ARMY WILL NOT RRTREAT TIC
RICHMOND.
Thus it is evident that so far from being neal
its end, the campaign against Richmond has just
begun, and that all the advantages thus far. re
mains with the rebels Geu Lee has succeeded
in his original design of drawing Gen Grant.
main army tar away from its base where il must
hight TO disadvantage; and Of preventing its
junction with its important auxiliary column OF
Gen. Butler
In conclusion | NAV add that in no event will
Gen Lees army retire within the defenses OF
Richmond. The defense Of that city was from
the beginning of this campaign. entrusted to the
troops under Gen. Beauregard Gen Lee is
believed to have in view a movement in an en-
tlrely different direction. DRUID.