Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-02-18


Potomac" had thus, on the night Of the
sixth instant, been hurled back TO the neu-
trail ground between the original positions
OF the two armies, with its account of un-
succ ssfnl supplemented By a serious dis
ester. The miserable failure which has
again bcfalen Grants eternal movement
to the left, has cost the households Of
the North, on the faith of careful CLEAN.
ing of all the accounts Of the movement,
about one thousand men in killed and
wounded Those who have studied the
dishonesty Of the War party in their state.
mebts, in the past, will use their own
judgement in estimating the gravity of the
slaughter which, notoriously unscrupu-
lous pnrtsanshp, confesses to be SO awfully
heavy,
I In summarizing, as we have here, all
The Federal accounts ofthe late movement,
we propose to give the Confederate version
of il in few days. The difficulties in the
way of comeing at the actual truth Of mil
itary operations until Southern accounts
have been received, We may illustrate by
the following representation of the rout
which we have just described on the Fed
eral left. This extract we take from q
journal that effects some Jealousy for its
character-The New York Tribune
: TUESDAY MoRN1No,7, 8 O'Clock. The
Fifth Corps continued to swing arOnd to
the left, yesterday afternoon, until they
met with skrmish line Of the Rebel
troops massed on the Boy ydton Plank Road
in front Of the Second Corps, whereupJu
light skirmishrg ensued along the entire
line of the Fifth and Second Corps, uutl
just before dark, when the enemy made q
desperate charge upon the left oil the Fifth
Corps, which was gallantly repdlsed by
Ayres's '.,Figbthing Division" with con.
: siderable loss to the enemy,
: The left of the Fifth Corps now rests
upon the Boydton Plank Road, and the
entire front of the Fifth and Second is be-
ing strongly fol tilted to the left of the old
fortified position which is held by the Sixth
Corps.
"Grcgg's cavalry are still ou recon
noissance down the Weldon Railroad and
to the west Of it, toward the Southsido
Road.
''lt is estimated that oui entire loss kill.
: ed and wounded, in the two days kirmish
/ ing viii not exceed one hundred and fifty
, The whole humber ofrepel prisoners taken
up TO last evening was about three hun
dred.
GA disagrecable storm of snow and slee;
is prevailing this morning, but there is
, yet no sign OF our troops returning tc
camp" lLLINOIEN.
The Fifth Corps, which that impuden
+ falsehood declares to have received master
oI The field fed from it, we have Just seen
in utter rout The left, which that groS:
untruth places on the BOydlon road, had
not, during its advance, been nearer tha
highway than mile, and had ,beioi night
made the bsst Of its way in wild panic, tC
the cover of some brcastworks, two mile:
further off! But, then, comforting az
suFance supersedos the work Of those
frauds, by telling us, in telegram froa
Baltimore, that we shall have "good new
tomorrow Were people ever before
subjected, under such sore aaliction, to so
disgusting system Of chicano and false.
hood
The last movement by the left flank has
D we presume, come TO a close. If Gordol
S have not pounced upon it il again we may
= expect that, should it not, to cover appear
ances, remain behind works on the latel
D nentral ground it had been allowed to oc
cupy without opposition, it is now on tn
Q way back TO the comfortable quarters
had been ordered SO folishly, in the deptl
S Of Winter, 10 abandon.