The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-06-17
Grant,s CampaIgn III EnglIsh E5es.

The campaign now going on in Vir-
ginia amazes the world Europe looks
on in wonder at the battle succeeding
battle, and At the Persistence and OBJ
stinacy with which gen GEAxr fights
Grieving, as wedo, at the fearful sacri-
fees made for the preservation Of our
National Union, we cannot help GER
tain feeling Of satisfaction at hearing
English authorities acknowledge that
nothing is equal 10 the fighting Of our
army. Even the London Times, which
loves to ridicule and disparage US, in
noticing the early battles Of the pre-
i.sent campaign, is constrained 70 pay
our troops the highest compliments. In
Its leading editorialof May 25thit says
Perhaps the Americans may be
proud of the pre-eminence, but they
/ have certainly foughtmor desperately
for 3 longer time and with more dread
I'll slaughter than any nation before
them. Il would not be impossible to
match the results of any one days bat
tie, with stories from wars of the Old
World; but never, we should think, IN
/ the history of man. were FIVE such bat
! ties as these compressed into six succes-
sive days. Il is hard to conceive how
nature could have supported the ex-
| haustion and the strain. We have been
/ told that after single days hard fight
! ing the lassitude and reaction in even
victorious army are such that any
fresh force might snatch its laurels from
/ il; whereas here are two armies holly
engaged in the work Of slaughter from
the morning of Thursday till the night
Of Tuesday with. scarcely the intermis-
sion Of an hour. On every day except
Saturday there was a pitched battle,
contested with the utmost fury; and
even Saturday was devoted to marching
and fighting on the march. Nor were
these prodigious operations divided
among immense numbers brought into
action by relays. Neither army num-
bered above 100000 men, and Of these
every man seems to have been engaged
in every battle. Indeed, we are ex-
pressly told that the Federal reserves
were brought up on the first day.
'The desperate ferocity OF the fight
ing may be inferred from the fact now
reported that the slaughter was pro-
duced without the aid of artillery. No
rified guns or murdsrous shell did exc
cution among crowded masses. The
great battle of Friday, which IS said to
have cost the Federals alone upwards
Of 10000 men, was a hand-to-hand
fight. The COnfederates were posted
in the well-known woods in the vicinity
Of Charlottesville, where Hooker
once received so bloody a repulse, and
so dense was the thicket that cannon
could not come into play. Regiment
against regiment, and man against man.
the combatants fred and hacked at
each other in this tangled wilderness
till night closed in; and an Intercepted
report from Gen. Lee actually tells us
that on his side the heaviest loss was
IN men killed outright, and that he
had comparatively few wounded If
this be a correct version of the des-
patch, it gives more impressive idea of
the fury Of the conflict than any other
Of the incidents reported. 1t is clear,
indeed. that whatever may be said Of
the composition of the Northern armies
and of their inferiority in this respect
TO the patriot legions of the South, they
have FOUGHT in this campaign with
yalor rs estimate as that of their enc
mics. No mere Indifferent or disaffect-
ed mercenaries could have been led
from a battle like that at Wilderness
to 4 - 81
vania Be the impulse what it may, the
Federals are fighting in stern reality,
and with spirit as resolute as that OF
their adyersaries,
This much the English organ Of our
enemies comedies to the Yalor and en-
durance of the glorious Army of the
Potomac. 1t goes still further to com
pliment General GRANT. After specula-
ting as to the possible results of the
campaign, and what may be the next
movements of GRANT, it says:
"He has stamped new character on
the tactics of the Federals No other
General would either have advanced
upon the Wilderness after the severe
battle of the 9th, or followed up an al
most victorious though retiring enemy
after the still harder lighting of the 9th
None but he again, would have attack
ed his adversary so resolutely on the
Sth and on the 9th, or held his ground
so tenaciously in spite of failure. I'm
der his command the Army of the PO-
tomac has achieved in invading Eir-
ginia an amount of success never
achieved before except in repelling in
vaSion.
The Confederate forces were once ar
rested by Mcclellan and once by Meade, |
but that was when they thought to car
~ war into Northern territory. Grant !
alone has done more than this. He has |
advanced towards Richmond, and |
though he has made but little way, and |
has lost half his army, he has not been
driven back. Whether his position can |
be retained, or his success improved, is |
question which the next mail will re- |
solve for us. $50
His position was not only retained, |
but it has been very materially inn
proved. He has not lost half his army, |
and he has advanced much nearer Rich
mond We trust that ere many mails |
viii leave this country for England, the |
news win be sent that this incompara-
bly, gallant army, with its brave leader,
has gone into Richmond and captured
JsFTERsoS Davis, or compelled him to
fly to the cotton States.
The Columbia (Tenn.) Chronicle of
last Saturday says a sad affair occurred
on the plantation of Mr. Nat Moore,
on Sunday in which his son Frank,