The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-06-05

General Grant has been making his
| tory during the past week. At its COM
mencement the Army of the Potoma-
had advanced from the Pamunlly to
within seven miles from the rebel capi-
tai, in the vicinity of the Chickahom-
inv. where on Monday evening, its left,
under Warren, was attacked. The en-
envy, however, was repulsed with severe
loss, leaving their dead and wounded
on the field. Simultaneously wi,h this,
Grant ordered a general attack, but
night interviewed before any other corps
than Hancocks could be brought into
active engagement; they carried the
rebel works at the point of the bayonet
and held the position. On Tuesday
morning an attempt was made to get
behind the Chickahominy; with q view
10 interrupt Grants communications
with his new base of supplies at White
House. on the Pamunky, but it was a
signal failure. Our line on Monday
was at Totopatomy creek, which runs
north-easterly from the vicinity of
MechanicsyilIe, and empties into the
Pamunky. At this point all the four
CORPS Of the army were concentrated,
and Badly Smith, from Buffers force,
was also ordered up Grant has so or
dered things that Lee, or, if Lee is sick
or wounded at Richmond then Ewell,
upon whom the command devolved,
must fall back to cover his capital or
Grant would enter it with hardly q
show of opposition This must lead to
l. Ill
cept it. for there Is no possibility Of
their moving back on the Virginia
Central or the Fredericksburg railroad;
they had become vaIueless to Grant,
since he looks for his supplies via the
York river, and therefore the bridges
and the tracks nave been entirely de
slrOyed by our cavalry. The battle
ground to close the campaign, if not
the war, has therefore been found, un-
less the rebels decide TO sustain siege
in Richmond.
At Cold Harbor, ten miles west of the
White House, and above the Richmond
and York Bivcr Railroad, Fitzhugh
Lee was badly whipped on Tuesday by
Sheridans cavalry, and the place Occu-
pied by Wright's Sth corps. The next
afternoon the rebels made q terrible
effort to repossess the place, and fight
continued until dark, but every effort
was repulsed, though they sent forward
a heavy column. The enemy works
were held by our forces, though Smith,
after carrying the first line, had not
time before dark to assail other works
in the rear, which commanded it, and
therefore Withdrew.
The centre under Burnside IN the
meantime was near Mechanicsville Be-
yond this we have no official dispatches
up TO the time we write, and there can
be little doubt that on Thursday there
was a general battle. We do not hear
of single reverse; daily and hourly
the net is drawing more closely around
Richmond, and it now looks as if no
human agency could save it. From the
Rapid Ann TO the Chickahominy, every
movement of a strategic character made
by Grant has. been a complete success;
the two or three years expended by the
rebels in fortifying have proved Of no
avail. He has outilanked every posi-
ton, and we presume hewill once again
attempt a similar movement upon the
doomed city from the eastward, on the
south side of the James river, while
the gunboats and iron-clads will soon
be brought up into cooperating posi-
ton. If our readers Will follow care
fully the official reports Of Secretary
Stanton, they can keep themselves well
posted upon matters as they tran
spire-Lou. Jo10uoL