Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1864-06-01
New Series---Vol. XVIII, No, 81.

days operations viii not fall short of a
thousand.
"Wsrren's loss is not over 500 killed and
wounded
"The prisoners captured are in great
part North Carolinians, who are much dis
couraged, and say Lee has deceived them.
The pursuit is delayed by the great IA
tgue OF the men. Still Hancock and
Warren will reach South Auna by night.
fYll."
General Butler, in dispatch dated at
headquarters in the field II o'clock this
morBins, reports that "Major Gen. Fitz-
hugh Lee, lately promoted, made with cav
airy, infantry and artillery, al attack up.
on my post at Wilson wharf, on the north
side of James river, below Fort Powhatan,
garrsoned by two regiments, all negro
troops, (Brigadier General Wild command
ing), and was handsomely repulscd,
"Before the attack Lee sent flag stat
ing be had force enough to take the place
and demanded its surrender; and in that
case the garrison should be turned over to
the authorities at Richmond as prisoners
OF war; but if this proposition was rejected
he would not be answerable for the conse-
quences when he took the place.
General Wild replied, 1--WE will try
! that"
"Renforcements were sent, hut the
! fight was over before their arrival.
| The loss Is not yet reported.
! No other reports OF military operations
! have bean received by the department
since telegram of $50 last evening
E. NJ STANTON,
Sec of War.
! WASHINGTON May 26.
Dispatches from General Grant, receiv-
ed this morning, inform the Department
that the retel army still hold strong po-
stion between the North and South Anna,
where their forces appear tolbe concentra-
ted
1t will probably require two or three
days to develop bis operations, which are
not now proper subjects for publication.
The 9th Corps has been incorporated
with the Army of the Potomac
No despatches have been received from
any other field OF operations.
| EDWIN VI. DIANTON,
Secretary Of War.
WAsHINGToN, May 26-l1 p. m.
The dispstch from General Grant, men,
toned in my telegram this morning, was
dated at Jericho Mills, at II noon, yester-
day, the 25th.
An official dispatch from headquarters
at Quarles Ford at eight clock this morn
ing, has just been received 1t details
movements in progress since yesterday, of
which it is not proper now to say more
than that they manifest their result in tWen-
ty four hours.
Our sick aud wounded at Fredericks-
burg have been transferred to Washington,
and the army material aud supplies are re-
moved to poiuts nearer to the present field
OF operations
From the mouth of Red River on the
2lst of May, General Candy reports that
the army from Red River was delayed in
crossing the Atchafalaya The crossing
was completed to day, and the army is now
moving across the Mississippi.
Brigadier General A. j. Smith had a
spirited engagement with Polignac's Reb-
ell division on the 18th instant, defeating
it, driving it several miles, and capturing
three hundred prisoners.
In the report at l0.45 to day, General
Butler says =
Further official reports show that the
repulse at Wilson's Wharf was even more
complete than telegraphed The enemy
retreated during the night, leaving twenty
FIVE OF their dead in our hands, and showed
loss of killed and wounded of more than
two hundred From the accounts of every
officer the negro troops behaved most splen-
didly"
Nothing has been heard from General
Sherman's s command.
E. NJ STANTON,
Sec. of War