The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-06-12
FROM THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.
Details up to Tuesday Night
No Battle but Constant Sharp
Shooting.
Siege Operations Steadily Progressing
Events OF Monday.

WASHINGTON, June 3
HEADQUARTERS ARMY or THE POToNAC, }
June Go PM
Early this afternoon the rebels open
ed battery on General Griffin. Our
guns promptly replied, and for short
time the firing was quite heavy. Du-
ring the engagement the 18th corps
Hospital was shelled by the enemy,
whether Intentionally or not / cannot
say. The rebels may have done this in
retaliation for little mistake on our
part on last Sunday, which was as fol-
| lows:
During the sending of a flag Of truce
by Grant, the chief Of artillery of the
18th corps, not being aware of this fact,
placed battery in a new position which
would advance our lines The rebels
were indignant and refused to receive
the flag of truce. This may account
for their spiteful firing to-day
II P. M-MIDNIGHT Our usual even
ing fight has not come off yet tonight
and indications are that all hands will
rest till morning
Late this afternoon the 9Th corps has
moved from the right, which it had held
for the last four a Is, and taken a posi-
ton in the rear of the ID corps on the
left, in front of which the enemy has
been massed all day.
\ movement was on foot last night,
but for reasons not necessary to give, it
was suspended.
The direction and disposition of our
/ lines has been materially changed since
/ Friday fight The 9th corps has been
contracted somewhat, and its ID diyis-
sion formed almost at right angles with
the main line, the LIST brigade holding
the advance and the I'd division being
nearly in the rear of Gen Griffin's POI
sition. The other corps remain I'M
changed. At many places, especially
in front of tho 10th and 18th corps, our
line is we'll fortified, but at other points
we are subjected to CALLING enfilading
/ fire, against which it IS almost impossi-
BILE to fortify.
Nearly all our wounded have been
/ sent from the field hospitals to the
White House. The excessively hot
weatherwe are having is very hard on
them, and the poor fellows are glad TO
/ hear Of starting North
SECOND DIsPATCH-EyESTs or TUESDAY.
WASHINGTON, June 9.-The following
| has Just been received from our cores
| pendent with the Army of the,Potomac,
under date of Headquarters, June 7,
p NJ
Our progress toward Richmond is
slow, but no doubt is entertained in the
army as to the final result Spades to
the front, has again become the order,
and silently, but sdrely, we are digging
up to the rebel capital Since the first
of this month we have been digging al
most continually. At some places we
have thus worked up to within a hun
dred yards of the rebel works, against
which our columns dashed in vain last
Friday The hostile armies are now
quietly cycling each other The least
movement on one side, is sure to be fol
lowed by a similar one on the other
Both are ready, but neither willing to
make an assault The men keep low
in their bitches, as the sharpshOOters
on both sides are ever on the alert and
no chance for a shot is allowed to es-
cape The troops at the immediate
front, where they depend entirely on
breastworks for protection, suffer much
less than those farther in the rear, who
depend on distance for safety Every
movement Of men through an open
space is accompanied by the inevitable
music Of minnie balls. The 10th corps,
which was moving yesterday, lost
between fifty and one hundred men
by this means, and that too.
within a very short distance from head
quarters This IS repeated almost eve
~ day. OR own sharpshoOters con-
ceal themselves in trees and rayines,
and by various devices draw rifles into
range, and ! think our boys keep the
account about even. Today has been
much more quiet than usual, owing TO
the fact that both armies by common
consent were burying the dead, which
for almost q week have been living be-
tween the two lines These bodies
were becoming very offensive. and the
duty of burying them was not only sad,
but very disagreeable. Among the
bodies found was that Of Col BlcMa-
hon, who commanded the noted Irish
brigade of the Sd corps. He was kill.
ed on Friday, wine gallantly meeting
a rebel charge. Many bodies were al
50 buried last night
To-day we have had some eannonad- I
ing-enOugh TO prove TO us that the re- .
bels had planted several new batteries, I
which would play on both extremes OF
our lines. Those on our right are .
heavy guns, and are seemingly planted 4
in the neigh5orhood of Summers (
Bridge, on the Chickahominy. Those
on the left drop their shells disagreed
bly, close to the 18th corps headquar-
tiers. Two horses belonging to General
Smiths staff officers were killed by
these to-day. !