Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-06-10
NFem ths Array Of the Potomao,
GOAL hARDoR, June &c A. n.
REVIBW OF THR WERK's OPERATIONS.

VI Sue EokomAc-R week OF Unparalleled
e1eitement labor and hard fighting. Vio-
tory has ,perched on our banners 10 every
Instances, and the discOm6tted legions of |
zen. Lac have been driven slowly and |
steadily from their strong positions on |
the North Ann and Pamunkey beyond |
Hanover Junction aud the Tolopatomey |
creek 70 their line ofintrenchmeuts in front |
of Richmond on the ChickRhOminy. Much |
haEdzRork and hard fighting Was-necessa-
~ to secure the glorious result; but the |
labor has been performed without a muir.
muir. The fighting has gone on from day |
to day with the energy and spirit that alone |
inspire frsemen; and q Gordon of lines and |
military works is gradually tightening
around the beleAguered city that will even,
tualIy compel lie evacuation or surrender.
From the moment that Gen Lee abandon.
ed all expectation of compelling the re.
treat of this army from the Wilderness to
Washington, until the present, our advan.
ces have been series Of trfumphal march.
es and his succession of humiliatiug re!
treats. D."
Unlike all former Commanders Of the Ar
my Of the Potomac, Generals Grant and
Meade have manifested no nervous con.
Germ for the safety of their line Of commu.
nication with Washington, but have bold
ly cut loose from everything that impeded
the celebrity Of their movements, aud con.
fined themselves to the double object of
defeating Gen. Lee in battle and OF closing
10 on thesrebel capitalize grand objec.
tive point of the campaign. They have
succeeded In both to the full extent of
their expectations. Whenever the rebel
general has risked column of troops in
open battle IL has been fairly and signally
defeated. and whenever he has attempted
strategic movement, it has either been
thwarted 10 its very inception or made to
subserVe our own designs. On the con-
trary, whenever the rebel army was fOund
SO intreuched that an assault was danger.
GUS or uncertain, the disposition aud
movements of our troops have been marked
and mastery, and the enemy entirely de.
ceiVed until .poweFless to interfere with
successful accomplishment. li4.J
COAL HARBoR.v gs.E
Itmay be well to mention, for the ben
eft of the public, that Coal Harbor is
neither q harbor nor village, but an an
tiquated rustic hamlet, comprising two or
three houses, with barns, outhouses, &c.
There certainly is very singular taste
displayed by the F. F. V.s in selecting
names for their towns and churches They
frequently bestow a name on a town or
building without the slightest reference to
its character or location. They have a
white Oak Church" standing 10 grove
| OF locust trees, with scarcely an oak grow
ing within mile of it. Then they have
i'Ohestnut Hill" standing in hollow, with
out vestige of a chestnut tree near it
Belle Plain ia threefold more rough and
uneven than the Blue Ridge, and James
City has not houses enough to be called a
village. In fact, it frequently happens
that there is so much incongrniiy between
plaza and its cognomeu that one of us
wise mudsills" 10 sadly puzzled to tell
where be is or which way be is going.
- THE FIGHT OF SUNDAY MONT.
The moving of this corps in the night put
the rebels on the alert, and led to the most
furious fusilading aud caunonading ever
heard along three fourths of the line. II
began on the left, where Hancock was
changing some brigades, which may have
been mistaken for an advance and night
ASSAULT on our part. From eight till nfue
O'Clock The ffipg was terrific beyond dc.
gesipauns And TED every one TO suppose
the rebels bad concentrated for night as
eGeLt e. iansostsA 1t nradnally subsidized.
Itt6odt any apparent change Of position,
Ia characfst was Suspected. Dispatches
tFom' the different corps commanders soon
put all minds 10 rest. The loss was quite
trihiug 10 killed aud wounded, and no at
tempt vas made by either party 10 drive
the other from his position. The whole
affair began 10 misrepresentation, and was
taken up and coutinued along tho fIus TOT
GU noun To Iue darkness of night.
THE ESEHY
has been driven into his outer line of en-.
trenchmen,s defending Richmond. The
city is between six and eight miles distant
from our nearest point of occupation, in
the vicinity of Coal Harbor and Gaines
MIL. Every rod Of intervening ground is
probably being put ln the best possible
conditiou of defence. The rebels are rein
forced by every available man, aud NAV
number as high as eighty Eve thousand
troops. To destroy such well constructed
works, defended by powerful foe, will
consume more time than the public a,
large may expect, and is by far the most
gigantic undertaking of the war. =, To this
all the energies of the commanders are
now bent.
THE ATTACK on THR SECOND ooRPs.
thought the day would end as 1t be :
gan. IN comparative quiet; but 1t was n OF
So lated. AT half past eight O'Clock an at.
tack was made on the Second CORPS and a
portion of the Sixth corps. 1t was one OF
!ne most terrible night attacks of the war.
The rattle of musketry was incessant fol-
half az hour. Some artillery was used
Sod large number of the rebel shells
onrst over the Fifth corps line, although
doing but little damsge. 90 = =
stfg6 TIE REBELS REPULsBD.
The news reaching Us proclaim a vfcto-
EIous repulse of the enemy at every point,
Our corps expected it might come 10 for a
share Of the attack, bat in this was. riissn.
pointed. The enemy must have lost heav-
ny, aoVanciug 90 he did from behind earth
WORKS. Oar loss is computed As small,
our men fighting behind iutrencbme "
The onslaught was, however, a despera,,
ana determined ono, and there can be NO
doubt that the enemy calculated on sue
cess. few more such attacks and re-
pulses-Rnd the enemy has been repuIsed
every time be has sttacked-must end this
N odeo OF desperate warfare on the part Of