The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-06-10

Special Correspondence New York Tribune.
GEN. Buffers HEADQUARTERS, !
Thursday, June 2, 1864
] am afraid some luminosity has sprung
up between our pickets and those of the
rebels, for in the early morning light
they are actually shooting at each other
The gentlemen in charge of batteries at
either side, disguised at being thus
early disturbed from their slumbers, are
doing their best to awaken everybody
by the firing Of canister, great and
small Gentlemen of the Navy, unwil-
ling to be behind hand when any shoot
ing is going on, answer the echoes of
our batteries with their heavy guns. In
the pauses between the firing, a dull,
heavy sound comes from across the
James. 1t is the Army of the Potomac
striking its giant blows at the doors of
Richmond. The belief that Lee viii
not make a final stand at Richmond
grows stronger. The capture of Rich
mond, abandoned by the rebels, is a
barren victory Lees army, which in
reality is the Southern Confederacy,
still exists, and must be conquered or
annihilated. Had Gen. Buffers force
been left intact, he could now move to
advantages; but through the orders of
Gen. Halleck this army has been Grip
Piled at the very time when it should
be made available for offensive opera
tons.
JUNE !, lS64.-Early this morning the
enemy opened a heavy fire on our line
to the right Of the centre. Our batter
les have got the range of them, how
ever, and soon silenced their guns. We
lost one man killed and thirty-seven
wounded The gunboats fired few
shots at the battery by Howlett's House.
About dark, tonight, the rebel pickets
on Appomatox fired at ours, but did no
harm beyond driving a few persons out
of the river in which they were bath
ing. This morning the pickets of both
sides filled their canteens at the same
spring, but tonight this fraternizing was
dispensed with AS ! write, cannonad-
ing is going on to the right of the CEN
tire, the gunboat aiding. This com
menced while the band was serenading
the Commanding General and his wife,
who came up to-day on brief visit,
and the music of the one is blended
with the roar of the other The rebels
are reported to have sent away all their
available force, and Lee is said to have
telegraphed to Petersburg for all the
negroes to be sent up to Richmond to
assist in blockading the streets
Refugees from Richmond say that
Lee is back in the intrenchments De
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army begins to realize its defeat and
are becoming desperate The Rich
mond papers are 'blue," find fault with
army movements, and do not talk of
Lees having whipped Grant any longer
The Petersburg papers complain loud
ly that the authorities at Richmond
should have neglected fortifying and
garrisoning both City Point and Ber-
muda Hundred, claiming them to be
stragetic points of the greatest import
ance. The truth is, they never dream
ed Of our coming up so far, and, as the
Richmond papers admit, had no idea
that Grant intended moving towards
/ James River. One day, sooner or later,
the Importance of Gen. Buffers move
ment will be seen and appreciated by
those impatient people Of the North
who wished and expected that he would
take Richmond single handed We
have news to-day that Gen. Smiths
column had safely landed at White
House and effected a junction with
Gen Grant. Some cannonading was
heard in the direction OF Bottoms
Bridge this morning w. Ii. X.