Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1864-05-31
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General Pope has been ordered to Washing
ton with $4,000 men
Tie steamer Florida is reported 10 have been
at Bermuda on the 18th
Nsthsniel Hawthorne died in Boston on the
18th inst
The Chicago Times of the 2Oth, in an edito-
risl article on the situation, says 1t is only
now We are able to form an sccuruts judgment
upon tbe events of last week, and explain why
Lee, after being routed omitted to rst,eas, and
Grant, being overwhelmingly victorious, failed
to follow the demorAlized foe. The Government
after announcing a glorious victory, suddenly
cessed to forward anything The battle on
Thursday was undoubtedly the most 6ercely
contested, costly and gigantic svsr fought on
this continent Early in Ihe morning Hancock
gained a brilliant success, Of which Stanton
netiied the country. Later in the day the rebels
made a desperate charge, regsining all that
lost, which Stanton coneealed The battle
ragged ssyAgely all day, resulting in the con-
pless failure Of Grant to make Tia, slightest i'm
preston on the rebel lines II. had e terrible
aggregate Of killed, wounded aild missing as
our gains on that bloody day. Grants change
of position on Friday night was pgOmPtls mot
By the rebels. Grant has thus far occupied his
time in getting reinforesments.p
A special dispatch dated Cincinnati, lSsh,
says ths provost marshals in Kentucky have
been ordered to enlist negroes regardless Of their
masters, ard to receive them as substitutes
The Washington correspondent of the 81.
Louis RepHBtisaA under date Of tbs -14th, says
I've have lO4sa4 generals, killed, wounded
and captured, in Grsnt's srmy. Fully s. 900
men are wounded, Is 900 of men seriously"
Brutus J. Clay says that the losses in the re-
cent battles in Virgins, win reach 70 600, that
the greatest encouragement exists in Lincoln's
Cabinet, that another call for 100000 more
men will soon be issued:
Howard" AWAshington correspondent baS
been arrested as fOrger of the bogus procls-
nation.
The Phil Adelphis EVssiHg BallstiH Of the
90 h, says Stat letter from an American dated
al Dover, England, on the 4sh inst, states that
the combined Confederats pirates, including the
Alabama, ere to make demonstration on the
Northern coast as soon as practicable. Owing
to the detentipn of the RsppAhsnnock, and th'
non arrival Of the Alabama, j. has bean post
poned one month. This informatioH is derived
rom Confederate officers By Federal spies
a telegram from Nashville, dated on the 20ih
saYsi
Gen. Sherman is in possession Of Kingsso a
Rome, Csssville, and the line Of the Eto wAh
The army had heavy skirmiihiug with the sn
emy sll the way from Rsssea The railroad and
telegraph have been repaired to the present Po
sition of the army. The troops are in gOOt
condition and spirits. Johnston IS believed Z
bs At Atlanta.
Five hundred and thirteen prisoners, eapture'
at Rssses, arrived here yesterday and to-dfy
Among them are thirteen officers, belonging Z
! Poik's, Hardes's, aud Hoods coTps. They wa
be sent North tomorrow.
Hugh TrAlly, native Of 'Rsy county, Tenn
| Wss hung to-day by order of the military com
raandsnt, charged with busIlwhacking and mnr
derinS Union citizens Trsaly was captured Il
White county, EasG Tenn,.ssee, where he ws
sesine As guide 70 the rebel Gen Wheeler. II
betrayed no emotion on the scaHold, and avowe'
that he died Hue rebel soldier, and not guilt.
Of shedding innocent blood.
The river is three feet deep on sho shoals an
Is row falling.