Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-06-02

and seeming also to anticipate Gen Grants more recent
movement to the Psmunkey river will read with interest
at this time though the substance Of the article was given
in issue Of yesterday 1t is copied from the Richmond
Examiner Of the oath Of May.
THE STRATEGY OF GEN LEE
The intelligence already publish is confirmed in the
most complete The chief army Of the enemy has
abandoned Its base the Rapid Ann aud upper Rppahan
mock and established of supply on the lower
of the last named at Port Royal and Tappa
hammock His troops marsed in the country betw, en-
the MaapOny aud The lower kappahanuUck His front is
at Milford aud the Bowling Green This change of posi-
ton has rendered necessary corresponding change The
ston OF Geu. Lee Alter ascertainng that enemy
was left to hight IN SpottsylvaDa he has down ihe
line he has held with from the first, and again
planted himself between Grant and Richmond,
over Junction.
The Northern journals on the news Of this movement
by Gen Lee will, of course, raise the yell of triumph
louder than The retreat OF Lee the fight of the
Cunederates Have they not abandoned Svottsy
Court Hou>el Is not the Junction twenty miles nearer
kichmoudi What an amount of gaseous nonsense will
be expended these themes Ii is irritating to think OF
the turn they will give To the facts but csunot help IT,
and afford despse what eau d. no earthly harm
We suppose that people have New York aud Lon
don, ss elsewhere and 1t will be icult to make them
believe that The Confederate army is flying when It
from position which It's adversary has abandoned place
itself iu before him across the road which he
determined TO travel When Gen Lee moves his army
after lost battle, for the purpose Of getting away from
his antagonist because he finds himself unable 10
But il either party has done that, il is certrnly Grant
Lee followed him from the Wilderness he is now the
last 10 move aud Is pursuer, not pursued from Spot
sylvana.
IL true that by both movements these sme have been
brought Richmond but for Lee it rendered
necessary by the cOguraliun Of the soil and lines
those rivers which he had resolved to defend They have
their remote from the city, approach it ia their
course, and empty their waters the neghborng York
But tor Grant IL was choice He is where he is be.
could pass over the road Of first and second
IIa hayp IN hy
lug along the straight road from Washington Freder-
icksburs through ianri without firing shot losing
man. lie mgst have arrived A. Milford aud Bowling
Green from Port Royal or JappahannOck without the
saugh OF his troops In the Wilderness the Court
house. lie might have still He might have
come to the Piping Tree within eleven miles 81 Richmond
without eBgsg- meut with Gen. Lee lie might have
come up Peninsula perhaps Fair Oaks aud joined
hands with Butler the south SIDE still expect
him do asd this he will doubtless proclaim in the end
to have been the bect of ali his circuOus route By
each OF these ways 0f advance Gen Grant would have
brought Gen Lee IRON the Rapid Ann to Richmond
lie ord take them because there we're dangers and
defects. liz preferred the st and the before the
third and this before The fourth That he Abandoned after
trial. the two fret is to two clear defeats battle
So far from losing ground Lee has gained manifest adj
vaDtages BY each change OF the hines 1t is to de-
fend lrat poon Of his line which Richmond
than that which far removed from IT, lie is better
situated than At Spos Court House, and that
bette. than tDe Wilderness In either place his sup
PLIES, stores, aud renlOrcs nents bad up from
Richmond The country has been long since scared aud
beaten into desert by and Irampings at three
iuyGsons From the railroads to his camp weary miles
led mud were always inter posed by every shower His
cavalry VIGOROUSLY defective, and has always proven
IN hcent Ia protect his at those
when they were needed W hIle operating on the
lover rivers all Of these troubles are over lew hours
gave him his supplies he roads longer be severed
with mpuni y Inc difficulties which he has labor
ed tTanslerfed To the u the euemy Perhaps
conviction that IL wOnd be the which made
Graut prefer to encounter Lee Ia the Wilderness
OF coming straight to Milford
Considering he Whvleacts think the time has come
When Cont, deiates mby exchange cong ratulaons No
rejecting maa doubt that the general situation Is very
mucn improved the day crossed the Rapid
Ann AID Butler landed at Bermuda Hundred That wa,
indeed critical moment. he Confederate government
had been we'll warned OF the concentration against Rich
mOnd 1t WAS halt convinced of its reality But il was
ony hall belief; idea rather theoretical than practical
IL was just enough moved to render IL rrcratng
the divisions which Lee had hlAl the RAPID Aun
IL Was not SO Satisfied Of. the truth collect all the d
VISIONS OF Lees army in their place the State
Ii made no unusual collie elton of mates sl III Virginia But
ihr0uguOut The winter the enemy marched up from
every quarter oil the United States the lines OF
Virginia Fully determined to make the D0w decisive, he
spared no COST or esuscted without regard 10 future
campagns uninterrupted by any disturbing causv, he
psced his armies in positions whence they could be-
brought upon vital points of attack lew OF
movement. When all quito ready, aud tue roads
rey dy Tho signal gwen, aud The two masses Oi de-
strucuvc material struck u.s. warned but Ill prepared at
the same los tant.
hat indeed critical moment. But the ship had
original strength sufficient to stand the shock Iees
tina army beat The cbel lVrce OF the enemy Ia the Wider
ness the second blow deadened by the Qualifications
Dfury, Every moment elapsed has been galu
to US. Tune was all wanted to bring up Beauregard