Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-12-21

the Baltimore Aperican, which, % iately ss
the 18th said "ThiS movement Of General
Warren has even more significance and i'm
poriance tHen was first supposed Instead Of
being intended 10 net against the Weldon
Railroad IL is now evident that il is an inde-
peundent expedition striking at once South,
destined FIRST for Weldon, and ultimately for
| Wilmington
| This view found q reasonable basis 10 what
Gen. Gram wss doing in the meantime He
had sent another portion Of hie army to Hatch
er's Run, on the 9th inst, TO engage the Goa
/ federate forces there, aud TO prevent any
/ forces being sent south Of that point to inter-
/ iere with General Warren's march The nc
counts oi this .ast movement that have been
permitted 10 reach the public are insulting to
the Intelligence OF the people We are told
that it was successful, when It was a palpable
! faiiure To have succeeded the movement
ought to have been with strong iOroe--a
corps at least; and this corps ought to have
remained at Hatcher's Run. To have pre-
vented troops from being sant to intercept
/ Warren, tue corps ought to have left for
| Hatcher's Run NJ the same time that Warren
started IosteRd Of that, however, 1t WIS only
one division that was sent 10 HAtcher's Run,
and il did not 90 there I'LL the 9th BY
that time the Confederat.s had had forty.
[ eight houts in Nh,h 10 end troops to confront
Warren
This division, however, on arriving at
! Hatcher Run, had,an engagement with the
Conlederaies who we're posted there, which re-
snlted in our being repulsed, after which the
division tell back nnd retired to their old cA,ops
near Petersburg. Tho loss of the division in
the engamemsnt was about 800 in kiile d and
wounded
But what Of Warren aud his great expe-
dilion2 Yesterday, Warren and his whole
posse returned to their old camps near Pc
tersbnrg They came back literally in the
plight Of the sheep that we're lost by little Bo
Peep They had gone out for wool. They
certainly came home shorn ofthe honors that
they expected TO WIN. They had not taken
Wilmington They had not taken Weldon.
They had not even taken Hiekstord They
had done nothing at all commensurate with
the size and strength of the expedition, and
the high hopes that had been built upon it.
But what did General Grant really intend
Warren and his corps to do? He intended
them to- do what Hancock and his corps had
tried to DO on the 27th of0ctober, under en-.
| Grant directions, and yet failed to do, name
| " he intended Warren to sweep around and
strike the Lynchburg or Southern Railroad las
It is called, and in order that he might not
fail, Warren was ordered to take a much wider
detour 10 the south than Hancock had.
I Hancock had only gone as far south as Hatch
| ers Run, before he turned to the west War
ren was ordered TO goas Tar south as Jar
| ret Station, thlrty-two miles, and then
turn to the west He did So Why
did he fail then to reach his objective
pOnt2
de failed, because the whole movement was
known to Gen Lee from it's inception, and
proper measures had been taken to battle it.
The Lynchburg Railroad and all ths approach
to ii, far and we're guarded by
strong bodies of troops. When the division
Of the second corps, above named, approach
ed Hatcher's Run, on the 9th. they we're re.
pulsed by superior force. When General
Warren reached the Meherin River, south oI
Jarretl's he was confronted by a superior
force before which he fell back In wort
the whole affair is only another attempt By
Gen. Grant to reach the Lynchburg Rail
road, in which he has again been signally
foiled
No efforts will now be spared to hoodwink
aud deceive the public as to the real nature
Of Warren's movement, and as TO what Gran
intended to accomplish by it, 1t will be sale
that Warren has done oil that Grant intended
and that the movement was complete sue
cess. Bat your readers are now in possession
, of the facts which prove that this is not so Gen
Grant hoped beside, and believed that thi
formidable movement Of Warren's woul'
cause General Lee to detach from the im
mediate defenses of Petersburg so large a poi
tion o! his force that our army could attac
those defences successfully. The event ha
only afforded another demonstration of tht
superiority of General Lee owes General Gran
as strategist General Lee did dstach
force large enough to bafie Warren, and t.
save Weldon, and to prevent Warren fro'
= advancing any further south'or west thsn
: point near Jarretts. But that did not veal
; en- his lines at Petersburg aud Richmond
: and so the great concerted land and navi
attack has not and will not be made, Whe
4 denial of the above facts are useless, II
! blame Cor the failure will be thrown upon Il
:, weather; but think have fastened it no
where it belongs. MALCOLM.
r. We commend the following, which we cl
h. from the Cincinnati Enquirer of Monday,
l. the pious consideration OF the Watchers {
\ the walls Of Zioni'
- SACRED DRAMA-An exhibition Of a nov
~ character, aud for a most praiseWorthy o
!. jeet, will be given at Pixies Opera House nel
:, Sunday evening. A drama written by Care
. - nal Wiseman, entitled the Hidden Gem, W
,, be presented upon that occasion, for the ben
50 fit Of the Orphans. The piece is Of sacrt
!, character, and will be sustained by the mel
l., bers of Messrs. Duifield 4 Flynn's.. compan
y The Boston Commonwealth thinks Mr.. Sc
~, ward "a very poor prophet, and that he hi
4 better abandon his efforts to give policy
T. the nation, and be content TO serve for 4
=, few remaining months Of his admnistrati,