Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-06-13
NEWS FROM REBEL JOURNALS.
Their Accounts of Successes In vir-
ginia and GeorEia-UnlonP Prisonsrs
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Richmond papers Of June 8 are received:
The Sentinel Of the 81 inst, announces the
arrival Of $50 Yankee prisoners on Friday
last at Libby Prison. . ~ k4fF1Ew
It calls them an uncultiyated and bar-
barous mass, etc. IL says that on Friday
fourteen assaults were made by Grants ar
my on the right of their line held by Ker-
shaw, Hoke and Breckinridge, all Of which
were repulsed with great slaughter Of the
assailants, their men escaping almost un-
harmed. 't..-'3@ AtEi0d ~
1t acknowledges that,we gained partial
success against BreckinYidge. but that they
subsequently recovered the ground lost. It
says the Yankee loss was very heavy, and
puts it at from 10000 to $4,000 in this en-
gagement, and says they took 1000 prison.
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The Sentinel further remarks that Grants
object was TO gain the strong position
around Gaines's Mil, open the road to Bot
toms Bridge, and connect with Butler, but
that his object has been signally and dis
astrously defeated. q III l,,,.
The Sentinel winds up Its article as fol-
lows: 7sNh ~
'ln short, yesterday was happy day for
us. and a dark one for Grant. We have
gained largely on our left. We have taken
nearly 1000 prisoners. We have put hory
dc combat perhaps 10000 Yankee soldiersl
We have suffered very slight loss. Thank
Godw ..- ID. ......-.-.l -.
The Sentinel also says that a raid was
made in Nansemond last week by our troops.
under Major Gates, who arrested numerous
citizens. Col. A. ID. Moore of the Goth
North Carolina regiment was killed In FRI
days fight. Gen. Law was wounded above
the eye on the same day; also, Gems. Lane,
Kirkland and Finnegan. Tstlir12 5s9f
Laws brigade, in It's battles with Butler,
lost over 400 men. On Thursday night
an attack was made by Gilmore on the
works of Beauregard, which was repulsed.
A dispatch from New Hope, Ga, reports
skirmishing along the line on the I'd of June,
also that Dallas was evacuated by the Union
forces on the lst inst.
s.. ATLANTA, Thursday, June 2, 1854
The movement of the Yankee army to-
ward the Etowah river is generally accept
ed here as a relinquishmeIlt Of the 'IOn TO
Atlanta" movement. The Yankee loss
since the advance from Chattanooga Is es-
timated at 10000 wounded and $4,000 sick,
missing, and prisoners.
1t is reported that at Kingston the forage
Is all eaten out, and the country ravaged Of
every particle of food. 1v. gaTa -
Gen. G. w. Smith has been unanimously
elected as Major General to command the
Georgia reserve troops. '-''i 81 DTS
Gov Brown is engaged in preparing the
State troops tor active service. -.--.ef
Lowell has rendered his services to Cen
eral Johnston, and has been here on inn
portant service. He has left for the front.
An official dispatch from Atlanta says
On the evening of the 9th, the enemy at
tackled Cleburiie 1ierccly and was signaIly
repulsed. Our casualties amounted to five
hundred; the enemy left one hundred dead
on the field. At mig t. Cleburne attacked
them, capturing two hundred prisoners
without loss. ~
Another dispatch says the fight COM
menced about five p. M. on the 9th, and
continued till dark, when each army lay
down upon their arms within a hundred
yards of each other during the night.
AS soon as day made its appearance the
deadly combat was renewed. The enemy
crossed the Etowah river at Kingston
bridge on Monday evening, and marched in
the direction of Dallas, via StilesbOrough.
On Thursday his advance guard dashed in
to Dallas capturing and carrying of sew
eral prisoners, among them man whose
name is not known. They were led by q
tory spy, and ianked all our pickets, who
We're guarding every approach to the place.
Their line of battle was formed on Tuesday
evening, four miles east of Dallas, on the
Marietta and Dallas Railroad, around which
most of the fighting has been going on
The troops engaged on our side were Poik's
and Hardees corps. 1t seems to be Sher-
mans intention to continue in the direction
of Atlanta by his usual flanking ingenuity.
| learn that he is now attempting to move
q large force on Johnston's right, thus
thanking him above and below. This, how
ever, will prove a failure. Johnston has
got Sherman where he wants to make the
light to save Atlanta. There Is somebody
ordered in the direction of Chattanooga Just
before he crossed the Etowah on Monday.
Wheeler was then sent in Sherman's imme-
diate rear. Should the engagement be re-
newed tomorrow Hoods corps will be
near enough to participate in or check an
other attempt to flank our right. Our
losses in yesterdays fghtare comparatively
small, while those of the enemy are report
ed as very heavy. rsasg "yr g-~rf..
P.S.-Sincc writing the above, I learn
from Trustworthy source that Johnston
ilanked the enemy's right, driving him
back beyond Dallas with heavy lossS the
centre and right of our army repulsing him
at every engagement. ..s.,,--,
" m RICHMOND, June 3.
The Confederate Senate to-day passed the
following resolutions:
Resolued, That the President be requested
W hldhO dh CAPOoibtVht 0hAOoSA Out WILL
missioners abroad, to the various European
powers to which they may be accredited, Of
the violations of the rules of civilized war
fare, and of the atrocities committed by the
Government and Armies of the United
States in the prosecution of vhostilities
against the Confederate States of America.
A flag of truce was sent by Gen. Grant
yesterday, in charge of Col. Theodore Ly-
man, of Gen. Meade's staff, proposing a
cessation of hostilities on a portion Of our
line for an hour or more, to bury the dead
and care for the wounded between the two
lines. .a35aalg1'5
!. Col. Lyman waited until IL P, NJ but re-
ceived no answer. This morning an an
swer came, but some differences exists as to
the point to be designated, and no arrange
ment has yet been come to IN regard 70 the
Some skirmishihg has taken place along
the line to-day, as well sasoccaslonal artii-
lery shots. but without any change In posi-
The Sentinel publishes an account Of an
accident on the Petersburg and weldon
Railroad at Stony Creek. One OF the SOL
diers was killed, aud from ten to fifteen
wounded. The man killed, wasi named
Paulson, from South Carolina Heewas on
his way home, wounded, being the last but
one Of nine brothers who entered this war,
seven. having been killed and one died from
.pivQ<I an flSA field NJ ebafflo.