Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-05-26

desperation o tAis struggle WHOM saa1nDsd m aassoos
Aosrs aud thu 0i tbe aonflst from which have
ust praasGa spectacle OF horror that cuTdlss The
blood OF the bodeat The angle Of the works at which
Hancock entered and for the possession OF which the
| savage fight of the day made is q perfect Col.
g0tha la this angle n death the dead and wounded
rebels lie this morning. literally in piles--meD in
the agenies Of death grooming beneath tho dead bodies
of their comrades o. area of few acres in rear
of their position e not less than thousand rebel corpses
many literally to shreds by hundreds of balls and
several with bayonet thrusts through and through their
bodies pierced the very margins of the parapet which
they determined to retake perish IN the attempt
The exclamation ofevery who looks the spec
tace is God forbid that should gaze upon such
sight again
'Hanoock's movement is regarded here as the most
brilliantly conceived and executed tactical operation Of the
war, and has added to the splendid fame he 10 the
three days fight in the Wilderness. After the turning
movement of the morning the Sixth Corps and two divisions
OF the Second should be included in the history Of the day.
They snare the honors of the glorious but bloody field of
Spottsyvania Our loss OF yesterday must reach ten
thousand"
From another letter of Mr. SwNToN, written on Satur-
day, (the 2lst) we extract the following passages:
To-day completes week during which this army has
confronted the enemy in bis lines OF Spoltsyvania Court
House. We have fought mansuvred, and ,massed. We
have delivered bloody battles we have whsood the as
saults of desperate foe, and have driven him rom
powerful and deliberately prepared postions but he still
confrons u.s. Vital still in all his parts he will not, save
with humiliation, die.
The "Reminiscences of yesterday show that the rebels
are still in strong force in position, somew hat in
and to the of that out of which they forced
in the battle Of Thursday Dispositions last evening
made for manGlvre this mornng aiming to drive them
out. During no night the Fifth Corps (Warren) was
moved over to the extreme left connecting with the Sixth
(Wrght the right; this with the Ninth (Burnside) and
the Ninth with the Second (Hancock) which holds the
extreme right The attack to have been made at FIVE
o'clock this morning by the Fifth aud Sixth Corps, with
the view OF turning the enemys right by obique move
ment Of our left which would compel the enemy to evacu
ate his nee but the horrible mud prevents the movements
of the artillery and up to this hour holds the army IN
embargo.
Headquarters have been moved to the left to conform
with the position of our line taken up this morning
We are at the Gale House, the direct road from
Fredericksburg to Spotsylvana Court House, eight miles
from the former and oneanda half miles from the latter
Our advance line s within half mile Of the Court House
From the top of the house where headquarters
the Courthouse and portion of the enemy
works and both armies in sight of each other orying
The country is more open where now are. The Viii
derness here begins to shade and soften off"