The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1864-05-19
MORE GLORIOUS NEWS.
ingalls, Says ave Have Them This Pop"
1000 Rebels and 40 Cannon
Captured.
Fort Darling Beseiged.
Dispatch from General Grant.
We have not lost One whole Company as an
0rgaization.
Dispatch from General Grant.

General ingalls, Dispatch - From Me
A rmy Of the Potomac up 10 Thursday
Noon --Hancock makes Ten. Strike -
1000 Rebels and 40 Cannon taken.
WASHINGTON, May l3.
The following has been received by
Senator Ncsmith from General Rufus
Ingalls,, Chief Quartermuster of the
Army or the Potomac, il being positive
information from the front us late as
noon yesterday.
We have made a ten-strike today
Hancock went in at daylight He has
taken over 1000 prisoners md 25 guns
and is still fighting. Every body is
fighting, and has been for eight days.
We shall have them this pop, though
it may take u dag or two to win. Our
L sscs nrc heavy. Can't say how many.
| IL Augur's forces were here now, we
could finish them o.day. Hancock cap
turcd Gen. Ned Johnson aud two other
Generals, besides lots Of lower grades.
The old republic is firm. Bet your pile
on il. Grant is giant and hero in
war, but all our Generals are gallant,
and as to our men, the world never had
better. Yours in haste.
INGALLS,.
Dated Spottsy ylvania Court house, May
IL, noon.
WASHINGTON, May l3--2:30 P. NJ.
To General Dir.
A dispatch from General Grant has
vania Court house, May II $3.50 =. NJ,
aud is us follows:
The cight-day battle has closed, leav-
ing between 1900 and 1000 prisoners in
our hands, for the eight days work, inclu.
ding two general officers and over thirty
pieces Of artillery. The enemy nfc oh
stnate aud seem to have found their last
ditch. We have lost no one organization
not even a company, while we have dos
troyed aud captured one division, (John-
son's) one brigade (Dodds,) and one reg
iment entire of the enemy.
u. 5 GRANT.
lSignedl Il. M. STANTON.
WASHINGTON, May l3,
Tho Republic extra, has the follow
ing;
General Grant sent dispatch to the
President which was received last night
announcing in terms of characteristic
modosty, that he had moved on the ene-
my's works again at Spottsylyania Court
house on Tuesday the l2th, at day light.
General Burnside and General Han
cock were making grand and impetuous
charges with the bayonet aud corps, sur
prising the enemy and producing the
widest constcrnation in his ranks, crush
Lees right and center and hurling his en-.
tire line back, with awful slaughter, a
distance of several miles Generil Gran,
remained master of the field, with all the
rebel dead aud wounded, The route OF
the enemy was complete. The details
will be given hereafter.
NEW NoRK, May 18th.
Secretary Stanton, in dispatch to
General Dix, dated this morning, con-
firms the news OF llancock's success,
and states that Butler is besieging Fort
Darling, and that Kauiz has been sent to
cut the Dauville Railroad.
NEw York, May 18th.
The first ray Of cheering news OF the
probable safety OF General James =.
WadsSorth, is conveyed in the following
extract of letter from Captain Phillip
Schuyler, of General Kilpatrieks staff,
which reaches here this afternoon. The
letter says;
H'D'oRs ARMY OF THE PoroMAc,)
Six miles north of Spottsylvania, !
May l0-la III.
We have news this morning from G on.
Wadsworth. A prisoner states that he
saw him on Sunday morning or Saturday
night, lying ON couch in a hospital ten
with one of our officers attending him
lIo was shot in tho head. The bullet
entered near the nose. The General
was breathing with some difficulty, ant
: playing with the buttons Of his coat
The last statement in this letter shows
that General Wadsworth was so serious
ly injured that his mind wandered.
General Fitzpatrick, named in Captain
fSehuyler's letter, is Provost Marshal q
: Grants Army.
WAsHtSeroS, May Ia 6.3o p. M.
Gen, Dir; The follow ing dispatol
from Mr.. Dana has just reached the wal
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