Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-06-30
Yankee Tricks.

Hf Yankee Tricks.
In Georgia, lately, Col. Wolcott, of
the 46th Ohio, played an original and
striking trick upon the rebels In his
front. They We're behind very heavy
earthwork and safe from our sharpshoot-
ers. Advancing his regiment he con-
structed a substantial rife pit, in which
he placed his regiment, entirely covered
from the rebels and within short range
of their works. He then formed col
umns some distance in the rear, with
considerable display, and as If about to
storm the rebel works. After he had
sufficiently attracted their attention, his
bugles sounded forward" The rebels
jumped to their works in readiness to
resist an assault. The "Johnnies" thus
exposed the half of their bodies above
the parapet and instantly received full
and square in their faces the volleys OF
the l6-shooters of the 10th. The line
fell down, and the survivors, thunder
struck by the unexpected fire, ran with
out ceremony out of the works. No
doubt they considered it a Yankee trick.
Gen. JEFF G. Davis played serious
Joke upon the enemy in his front. Da-
Wis division was near the foot OF hill,
near the top of which the rebels had a
strong intrenchment. Davis advanced
a regiment as skirmishers up the hill
through the woods. 1t moved pretty
well up to the work, and finding it too
strong To assault, the, Colonel halted
his command and reported to Gen. Da
Wis that he could not proceed any fur
Their without great loss. Davis ordered
him to hold his men in that position un
| til he should hear the signal to with
draw. Leaving an interval of the length
| of his regiment, he put troops on either
| side and in front of this space in am
| bush, and sounded the recall. As the
| regiment commenced falling back leis-
| prely. the rebels came out of their work
| and with a tremendous yell charged
| down the slope, expecting to capture the
| retreating Yankees. The speed of our
men was accelerated, and down they
rushed to their places in the line, pursued
closely by the rebels. The result was
fearful slaughter of the entrapped con-
4 federates. Few of the assailants es-
capped Davis enfilading fire.
| GEN. GILIMoRR.-The bulk of odr army
of the Potomac has now been several
| DAYS before Petersburg endeavoring to
| carry It's Qualifications. Our losses are
said to have reached 5000, and the work
is not vet done. In view of this result
the public win think occasionally o.
Gen. Gilmore, who was ordered under
arrest to await court martial, by Gen
Butler, for not attempting to take thu
| city with between three and four thous
snd infantry, in conjunction with Gen
Kautz's cavalry force 1t is true tina
the rebel force then holding Petersburg
NAV have been quite small, and it ma,
have been Gen. Gillmore's duty to ascer
tain by attack, whether there wef
enough of them to man the Notifications
But of the latter his experienced eyt
probably enabled him to judge at once
He saw that they were so formidabl,
that if held by a force of any respecta
BILE size the attack would only result il
the useless destruction of his men. H
resolved, in preference, to incur the OPP
probrium of withdrawing without firm,
gun. We cannot, of course, say posi-
lively that Gen. Gilmore thus acte
wisely under all the circumstances G
the case. But Gen. Grants relievin
him from arrest looks as if he though
so, and the subsequent experience of tn
army certainly seems to afford ample in
dication. At any rate, the public is in
terested that an officer who has hereto
fore shown himself so skillful and enel
geticas Gen. Gilmore, should not pas
under cloud, without thought of al
the considerations which make in hi
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