Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1864-05-28

'u" hc hau poe" hgnhbB d' "py' 'no
enemy endeavoring to close in on our lines.
The Confederate General Walkor is said
to be captured. As yet no result of the
fighting is announced and nothrgis is known
OF what occurrd after Friday veuing.-
| Butler is on the strict defensive.
II appears that on Wedncs av last,
General Grant gave up the idea Of oaptur-
ing spotssylvania by direct ot.'cks and
determine to go around it. Ho ccordiug-
ly withdrew his army towards +, ,edericks-
burg, and GU Wednesday nigh lis troopt
pre- ented westerd face the Irth flank
being seven miles south west Ct Freder-
icksburg and the south flank eleven miles
southwest of Fredericksburg. On Thurs.
day the Confcderatcs attempted to cut off
his trains, as was decrbed yesterday, and
Grant captured Guinney's Station OH the
Richmond railroad, eleven south Of Fred.
ertcksburg. On Friday night the Fede.
raj army abandoned it's position and be.
gan movement to Guinney's Station.
/ The Confederates, divinng Grants in
tentions, began TO move eastward on Fri.
day about noon, They abandoned Spott.
sylvania. and fastened toward Bowling
Green, near the railroad, eight miles south
of Guineys. The theater of operation
has thus boen removed about twelve miles
eastward, and two armies are about as far
from Richmond as when they were en-.
camped at Spottsylvania. Secretary
Stanton up to one o'clock yesteaday had
heard nothing from Grant. AT the time
this Summary is closed, no later intalii.
gence has been received.
At the hour Of closing this article very
little is known Of General Grant progress.
His army can behaced southeast from the
neighborhood Of charlottesville to GUM
ney . Station on the railroad, eleven miles
south Of Fredericksburg. Part Of the
army had passed beyond there on Satur-
day, but nothing was known Of its pro-
gress. Newspaper correspondents write
with no precision Of any movements be-
yond there, and nouo who have been. heard
from, appear to have gone further than
Guinneys Station. The people who send
dispatches from Washington know only
the rumors current there. Secretary Stan
ton has sent us nothing. We may con-
clude, therefore, that the army has passed
TO Gunneys station, aud some distance
beyond it. The Mottapony, eight mile,
south, near Bowling Green, would be the
natural line Of Confederate defense. Gran
can scarcely have reached tho North Anna
Two days unopposed marching would hard
ly bring him to it, AS all information
from the army ceases on Saturday last, we
9 have very little doubt that the embargo or
the telegraph prevents our hearing Of what
occurred since. Some great even, mus
have taken place before this. II news
any further reaches us tonight it will be
!, lOuOQ IN SecODQ eultO0.
a General Butlor still holds on, behint
Il, bis entertainments on the narrow neck a
y the mouth Of the Appomattox. On Fri
. day last the Confederates attacked an,
captured his outer line of rife pits. H
made various attempts to retake them, bu
q was unsuccessful. On Friday night a
O attack was made by the enemy on Butler
!, lines, but it was repulsed. Tho gunboat
p in the James and Appomattox rivers ar
:. found to be most valuable Federal auxi
liaries Buffers entrenched line is abou
v two long mics long, and extends from on
river to the other.
1t General cooks expedition to southwest
% ern Virginia, it is now officially reported
e captured three hundred prisoners an
|. three twelve Founders. The Federal losst
y were five hundred hundred. On Satu,
st day there was fighting, but nothing
y known oft Gen. Batter has issued a
, order that no dispatches whatever are
be sent to the press unless revised by hii
n at his headquarters. This accounts for II
q absence of news from his departments
e Thirty-four hundred wounded from MOI
* days battle have been sent to Fortrc
,e Monroe, Ibis, with one thousand prise
ners and the proportionate number of il
Of ed and wounded left on the field, wi
v make the entire loss Of the Federal arm
ii in that contest SIX shousand, as is repor;e
The Berwick House.