The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-07-19

csan,'s Campaign.

T,Its ar MORNING ...t....'''so1s ~ 10
Grants Campaign.
rhe meuaactsas bulletins Of stanton 10
.,.am.nt misied the mob oi the Northern
cit,ea. aud probably deceived even some o
The press Bat they never for momen
blinded the eyes OF cool aud eaim spee'a.
tors At distance 10 the actual state of III,
fsc,s Il Grant was uniformly successful
AMI Lee uniformly detSatei, Why, they ask
ed, was not Lees army destroyed and The
object OF the campaign obtained by the cap
,ure Of Richmond? Ifvietory has attended
on Grants banner, where are its fruits -
HIS a eiugie object oil the campaign been
accomplished and il not, what good has re.
suited TO the Federal cause from SO much
slaughter and SO mtny triumpas, ii tri-
umphs they en- he called Ia This spir:l
the London Sidadird denies to Grant all
claim to be considered General. tile is
ssys that journal, ''but al infant in the
hands of l. &C. Ills only idea of the science
of war is that primitive one OF overpowtr-
ing an enemy 10y force OF superior numbers.
lie has SO many thousands or hundreds Of
thousands of men placed under his com
mand. Ills way of utilizing the unhappy
raw material is to hCri II against the enemy,
regardless altogether of the loss of life
AS Federal Gcuerals are estimated over
there by the magni,u lie Of their achieve
meh,s in this lue, Grant must now DC a he
no vi the first class. Mcclellan, Pope, aud
Hooker have slain their thousands, but
Grant has slain his tens Of thous ands, Cp
To the lth the Federal report confesses to
loss OF $1,000 ia seven days 40 00O killed,
wounded, aud missing. 1t is difficult to
rcaliZ: the full import of such an aimis-
sion-the army of WeliiL gtp-u in the Penil
sula, the British in tire Crimea, the sum to-
tai OF our countrymen who fought ut Wa
terloo, los. in q week. AS Grants army
appears to- consist of four divisions, each,
at the utmost, OF 35, 0J0 men, he must al
ready have been deprived of the aid of one
third OF his force" y "The history
OF the seven days id u grand exempliiiea,iou
oil the maxim that knowledge il power.-
From FIRST to last the record of these seven ,
days must be Illuminating in the last degree
to the Northern commander. lis attempts I
to outnumber his oppo nent; he is himself
ousnumbsred by dext,rous combination |
oil forces. He gives him battle, aud is de |
ieAied; his right wing is scattered, his cen
Ire brokeni two whole biigades OF his army |
He Glempts TO drive him from
his road to Richmond; his opponent, alter
beating him, takes up, at his leisure, one of |
the strongest Positions in Virginia, aud bar
ring the road. He directs one of his Gene.
falls 30 turn the right fi,nk of Lees army,
aud finds on sudden, TO his dismay, that
his own right flank has been turned, the
enemy ia behiui him, aud lis baggage aud
supply train has gone before him to the
Couteder ate capital. lie halts for day TO l.
secure bis Communications. The next thing
beard OF is heavy canuOnadiug near Fred
eFieksburg, and it Is rumOred that the road
10 Aqua Creek has been interrupted and
destroyed. During Gil this time he loses |
i0.OU0 men, among them eight Generals
.nd ga immense number OF officers. Sncb
| tissue OF blundels has not baen heard OF
since the war began. 1t is confessed by
his time that the North has no match for
Lee. There is mourning now in New York,
'ut there is JOY in Richmond"
. such Is view Of this Campaign, given by
n English newspaper, after having read the
All kee accounts and none other, for So the
writer expressly states in the commences
nent OF this article. That the Yankee
newspapers did not give half OF their Losses |
turing mat terrible week, it is perfectly !
easonable to infer, not Only from the Yam ,
lee habit of suppressiDg the lrath aud sus
estiqg iaieshood upon all occasions when
suns their purpose, but from facts that
ave since come to light, in spite Of every
uempt 10 conceal them. From jptelIi
ence received IN this city, from source
he perfect authenticity Of hich it is limos
lbie to doubt, ii Is known that Grant lost
ON all causes, previously to ere ssiug James
yer, 10 OOO men, aud that but for the re-
liorcements which Butler and Stanton sen,
him, his army would have been literally L
ID absolutely destroyed. These reinforce
tents amounted to 81, 900 men, if the Yam
&c accountSare TO be trusted, so that he
10 4O,OVO men out OF pocket when he be. !
IN his march from Cold Harbor In the d
attle Of Borodino, the two contending ar t.
les in one day, lost an aggregate OF proba C
y D.OO0 men. But then it was grand a
tched battle, in which the whole force on t,
sth sides was engaged. 10 the battle ofLeip d
g, which lasted fouS days, the aggregate t,
loss On both sides, was probably as great b
the loss Of Grants single army ia this =
.mpaign OF q month. Now these two were
Ie most murderous battles Of modern te
mes. III the month which ended with d
orodino, the Russian army had lost notL-
G like the number Of men Grant
st in the month ending the 81 of =
lne, 1864. The same may be said =
the month ending with the battle
Leipzig. The Russians estimate ih e loss -
Napoleon's army in 1912 It $4,000 mep
le greater part pegishing from tie uncle. =
ency Of tire climate. Napoleon, ca -. re i
'ntfary, says be ivst bp. 100000. We
'aii not step to ipquire which of these
aNments Ii trpe. But it must be observed
sat the l".s, be it what 1t may have been,
70 be distributed over period OF Ave -
lonths. No one month can be put In COM
arson with this bloody month OF Grants.
q for the other campaigns Of the French
wars, they scarcely deserve To
q. ms m al IN fha sama dav All othar oa.n | q