New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-05-12


Special Dispatch to The N. Y. Tribune.
WASHINGTON, Wednesday May IL, 1894
The following have been received tonight
from THE TRIBUNE special correspondents:
AcoUA CREEK, loi a. IN. wednesday.
have news up to II a. IN. Tuesday from the front.
burnside engaged at the time and all our artillery
Durnsidcs men were fighting splendidy, ami driving
the enemy.
Gen. Scdgwick WINS killed by sharpshooter on Mon
day evening. lie riding along picket line and
800 yards within H. The shot Of must have been
accidental His body passed through here last night.
Lee announced Monday TO his troops that bis sup.
plies ofprovisions were gone, and that IL they wanted
to avoid starving they must strip food from the Yankee
dead.
AcouLA CREEK, Wednesday. May ll-l2 o'clock.
An immense train OF common army wagons filed
with our wounded, some report two hundred Wagons
is winding as far as the eye can reach. and coming
slowly to our surgeons here There is large force Of
these men herc-tho meet distinguished In their pro-
iession in the North; among them Of course, Frank
Hamilton. This encampment Is rapidly assuming i'm.
mense proportions.
The Inst arrivals have been Of severely wounded.
The first wounded who came walked here--some eight
miles some IS. Yet indeed some Of these were sadly
hurt. s.w.
Acoun CREEK Tuesday May l0-l p. m.
The following order has just been issued and read
along our entire lines, although our now en-
gagged in another desperate struggle with the enemy
Our braves became wild with enthusiasm, and their
shouts even rose above the rattle OF muskctry and
roaring OF artillery its announcement passed along
The triumphant march OF army thus inspired. with
ASSURANCES Of success in all quarters cannot DO arrested
and Richmond topples to its fall
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE PoToMAc.
May 10, lsGi-l0 o'clock a. IN. }
CENTRAL ORDER-fntelligence has been received
officially that Major.Gen. Butler at Petersburg has
whipped the enemy badly, and is advancing on Rich
+lnondi hat Gen sherman has whipped the enemy at
Tunnel ILL ard Dalton Johnston retresng and leaving
his dead and wounded in our hands.
zen. GEo MEADE Major-GeneraL
The Sanitary Commission is in full work. What a
world Of good this Association does Hospital tents
fast gong up supplies coming ashore, and all the
wonderful preparation for the immediate foundation Of
city going which has often been astonishing 70
those who have seen the Kind men, with bags Of
biscuit neei them at distance from The camp. They
have not moment 10 wait for food. Past beyond these
and reaching the Commissions tents. thes met by
many Other who prefer them hot coffee. dozen
great ketihs have been oozng for twenty hours and
the benevoent men who do the Commissions work here
already LODI tagged out.
Aqua CRiKK. Wednesday May liza m.
Gen. sdgwichs body has been embaned and VIII
be place. upon the tonight for Connecticut IN
care Of AaiO Whittier Of his star. One Of your
specials ~ith - rcns~- that Gen. sodEwek said
70 him on Saturday night after the three days lighting
ct can fight my corps -ix DAYS more and they'll fight
better the Last day than any day before"
The General was bachelor and bis staff constituted
his family They were his children. None knew hiI
bu, IN love him nor named him but to praise As
colder bis record IA his eulogy.