New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-06-23
Ore-ations : saturdny-A Clear View OF
tie Move rents Of Bc Armies-Isow n
Battle I.S ks 80 n sr.e -atos-romethfng
about Ar. .lcry Du ,irg.
Pron. Our Special ,crrespobdeni.
HEADQt ARMY OF TIE POTOMAC,

saturday, June T., leOf--1 p. M
The battle of day before yesterday-yes, and
Of the day before ,hotof yesterday and OF to-day is
no, yet ended unlcs II las gow become siege. Call
it the Battle Of P, Isburg. take up the narrative
with the operations = tod first stating that though
not conclusive thy have advanced our position fully
one mile and aug,r great things for morrow or the
day following. An advance was ordered at o'clock
The order of the commands was follows; The right
next TO the river Mariindale's division Of the 18th
Corps connecting with it Neillss division Of the 9th
Corps The remaining divisions Of these corps were on
Buffers line Closing up to NELL the ID Corps at
II. left the 9th with the 9Th on the extreme left. No
point on the line which four TO FIVE miles In length,
was nearer than two miles to the city. Beginning a.
the right. on the AppomatoI. the general course eT
tended in an ellipse--a line Of semcircumyslation.
but Of constant departure. Tonight It is semcircle
for the left has been able " ~,f-D.. saC Tis1
nearly as much the center pui a little way
The four o'clock advance was really half an hour
later The fighting comparatively bloodloss
Whether the enemy fell back after severe slirmishing
and rith severe skrmishng predeterminately or be-
cause lie was forced bnek generally 1t was but the or
binary work Of thick skrmsh line, covered by such
pounding Of artillery gave the echoes no rest Soh
ing like the close range ncof battle musketry OF the
wilderness or Of spottsylyania unless 1t was such
few minutes with Hancock and that part OF burnside
which extended from bis left Warren, hall charging
half marching. half fighting half picket and sEHmish
firing had gained nearly mile. Nell and Martindale
swept up the river some distance and could have gone
further apparently, but for danger Of exposing flank
by breaking alignment with the troops on their left
The works gained by this advance. though nothing Ike
so stupendous as those taken the day before were quite
formidable such as If they had been held ip force.
coun scarcely have been carried by assault. The ar
tery did not halt but played away until H. the hour
fixed for another advance.
Not far from the river and perhaps two miles from
the city on q bold eminence, Is the Friend House.
II was one Of the fortified positions taken yesterday
and we had advanced from II less than half mile In the
morning Between II and the city lies stretch oil H'ei
river bottom land planted with corn and dapped green
with scattering trees From this house, saw the sec
ond attack In the foreground lying upon their arms
in several lines ncn-Neills and Martndaes
divisions-and beyond were those OF the enemy no
quite 80 plainly to b. Borsemen are seen riding
rapidly along the opposing fonts, preparing connect
ing regiments with regiments, brigades win brlgAdes'
and dressing the lines by "let obique this body OF
troops is made to extend the line OF the brgades oil
Gibbon whose regiments project little way out OF the
woods upon the plain while BY tho same movement
Marindae shuts up the space between him ana Nsiii
and the right Is advanced somewhat. Here right by
u.s. is the old Vermont brigade, Gen. l.. A. Grant In
reserve. An officer remarks that 1t Is the mist
time lie ever knew that brigade TO be the reserve.
There is some anxiety lest the Rebels may have bat
teres the river ready 10 deliver an intoerabe
cross fire the moment the attack shall DO launched and
Gen. Hunt Chief Of Artillery for the Army and Col
Tompkins Chief Of big guns for the corps. are here
a.. snnh ArsfT A
fort over there has been shcng this hill all the morn
ing. and has been replied to by Harms and Cowan's
nst and Sd N Y independently batteries. 1t is worth
while to watch the duel.focus your glass upon the
Rebel fort listen for the report close to your elbow Of
one Of Cowans guns see the smoke Of the shell bursting
IN or over the yellow earth upon which your eyes rest
even while the shrek Of its passage through the air yet
rings in your ears and while the yoics OF ats explosion
Ia yc N the way back.
an instant and you will see another volume OF
,- moke rising over there and hear 2o.pound Par.
>, oming this way-the sound Of shell coming
o., ia one ia easily distinguished from that Of shell
c,i,c from one. The former grows in geometrical
,eti, londe> more discordant and ferce-rhoreover
one, sensations arc different and the ito ten seconds
between the explosion which sped X and that with
which Il atoms are Of prolonged and intense nature
am half disposed to believe in very truth that these
things 20 from here over there In oneenth the hme
required To send one from there here
But few musket shots down on the plain recall our
attention To the troops They advancing and driv
Ing the Rebel skirmishers with dropping fusIade and
you see the white puff Of every shot.
At our feet smiling valley. rich with sprisslns
corn and ripening wheat orchards already bending
with fruit and in the distance beyond churchspres
pierce Zoe wr.clouds rising dun and outlined
against the SKY, indicate the city you cannot SEQ ior
suburban trees and shroudDg haze and dust and SMOKE
And these men killing each other. and We look on