The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-08-18
TIE MILITARY NEWS.


I ho additional reports received from tNa
es river do not materially change tic aspect
ho engagements Of SUNDAY n,ar Deep Bot
On Sunday night our forces Leld all the
md that had been gained during the day
on Monday our lines-what portion Of them
BIT stated-were advanced at one point to @
ton within six miles Of Richmond. Tho
L Of Sunday, however was not achieved
hout saCrifces the 10th and the "a Corps
f ing lost between them over five hundred in
d and wounded.
ne brigade Of the 2d Division of HancOcl,'s
4ps, under Colonel Macy, IN its fearless pur-
Of the Rebels, attempted TO charge through
5lyine which was interSectcd by stream and
almost impossible swamp. The rayiue was
lmanded 10y Rebel artillery from the opposite
7bhts, and Colonel Macy was at last compelled
Hhelter his men from the Cucmy's drC as best
k;Ould, and to retire under cover Of night. The
/ OH of Mondly, the details Of which are ye
biting, shows 20 least that Our forces we're IN
ton to follow up the advantages gained on
previous day.
&he operations thus in progress under the
mediate eye Of the Licutcnaut-Gcner6l-so far
pur present information eXtends-are made
Eligible mainly on the ground that Lee has
repeated aud heavy drafts UrCn him, both
IN Hood ard Early. AS TO the latter, We have
tical assurance that be has been reinforced,
khe fact that Sheridan is reported to have
ven back to Winchester and to be intrenching
n Ascf at that point- Now, although we have no
Erial report that Sheridan himself had advanced
NEe than five or six miles south of Winchester,
probable that his advance may have been
one of Yesterdays kilograms announced
Sc upon Barly's heels, the latter being
enched al Stpsburg.
bn Sunday General Sheridan dated a despatch
m Cedar Creek, probably five miles south OF
Chichester, ana at that date the van Of his army
~ got sufficiently near to Early to Justify
Nridan in reporting to the War Department an
Aroximate estimate of the plunder carried of
&the invading force. The day succeeding the
r of that despatch must, clearly enough, have
new aspect ON the situation. Early, in fact
st have met the supports sent forward by Lee
What these amounted to in numbers, probably
aneral Grant has thought it well 10 learr
fough the agency of Hancock and Btrney
d on this suppOstion there are sbundau
sons to justify the actions Of Sunday anC
bnday around Deep Bottom. Lee cannot SPAR
brge army TO reinforce EARLY, and at the SAM
lc feel unbounded confidence in the impregna
Hity of the defenses on the north and northeSS
e of Richmond.
1The news, too, from Atlanta points with grea
ectness to the fact that Hood has been per
tied to draw heavily either from the old Rebe
vny of Virginia, or from Beauregard's army a
Bersburg-which amounts to the same thing
b appearance of Wheeler at Dalton, with
ce OF Rebel cavalry, may not indicate tina
neral Sherman's rear Is seriously threatened
it is one of number of supporting proof
ht Hood, in spite Of the terrible losses h
blurred in the great battle of the 22d OF July,
least as strong in men to-day as he was betor
bt engagement took place. His reinforcement
Uay have been made up in part from GeorSi
Nd Alabama militia. But they were M
sorgia and Alabama militis that surrounde
xaneral Stoneman near Macon on the night
e 3lst of July, although State troops doubles
-operated in the Rebel movement whiC
Eecked General Stonemans progress in Il
II -ly part Ofthat day.
pom SO many Of these alleged facts as no
n ! speculative character, General Grant ms
h expected to throw positive light. he h
Nh under his immediate command much OF q
.st fighting material in the national army. /
Ms, in Hancock and Birney, thorough executi
Ulcers and even If the Dutch Gap caual shou
Ht meet the high promise of its author, we m
Hfely look for results from the operations nor
III the James which will tell, at least, on the cal
kigns of Central Georgia and Western Virgin