The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1865-04-05
THE WAR NEWS.
SFiom the Age Of The sOh uh ]


Cop;ederaieS assaulted aud capUred lbe
Federal works with nine guns eIghi NOR
,arS. ard hetween fve and SIX hundred
pri>o er>. Alter repul>'n9 wo Federal as
-anll-, fl dug that The Federal works ~ IN.
rear couId not :e caPlnred except 5y great
los OF l,te The Confedera Withdrew The
guys ard mnr,ars were Disabled and LEFT be
nind The prisoners were sem TO Rich
mond General Lee -ASs he Confederate
loss was nn heavy. Everrthra! has been
Quier al Petersburg siItce lhe haiIle o Sat
urday
Federal porls of their losses in the re-
cent ba Ties between Shefmau and Johnston,
sonlh of the Nense river in North Carol a,
have seen received Al Averysboro' the
Federal Joss III klled and ~uuaGed Is re-
ported At four heudred aud eighty tour AT
Bsnions vile he Fsderai loss Is stated at
one ihousand killed aud wognded cud Two
hundred aud fits capiursd. On March 231
ihe Uuned armies OF SAer7nau. Fsrry aud
Scnotield Were ercanpsd along he Aeuss.
Al GOIdstotor End tor some tisl3rce west
of it r5s 5ruorncss ma. >hermau
woud cot move los s1ms ume. as De- lu
ir- sj 10 re-- n.s ms ami Procure p
p.i- Sherpau ~ Nzwner oH tlsfcb
25,A or r-,- Al1.roe. zac >aiej tp
ire jane 20 Ci, Pc oC he q l
Dad a" trte,st-S wea Grsrr
Tie aIeais1 per q SheridsH'- csvafy are
re eporei have crossed TIE James a Deep
Bottom TIE conmard % j. sad VIII
Hereafter be on Grants lett Al Hatcher
General Wilson's Federal cavalry raid
against Mobile has been heard from at
.Chckasaw, IN Norhwe-ien Alabama
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81 ~
army hal reached .he Neu-e river apd Scho.
field had entered Gnldrnoro', formally an
nounced tn ms troops hat hey -houid have
rest For several DAYS ;hey have been
quiet in their camps along the Neu>e and
The indications are that the Confederate te
works on The roads TO Raleigh and Weldon,
are so lormida5 5le that the Federal advance
cannot bs pushed much farther withOui the
seveTesi fighting. On Tuesday night Sher
man left Grafi'- camp, aud returned 10
Wilmington Nonh Carolina The RAILROAD
between Wilmington and Go!dsboro' having
been put in order, II Is now he easiesI line
OF communication with the Federal army.
Ii will hereafter be used 10 carry SAerman's
supplies. The Coalederates estimated Sher
mans strength before he was joined by
Schofieli and Terry, al foriy-lwo thousand
men aud ninety SIX cannon.
On ldrt MouudJ morning ln6 OOuleueI-
aies sent a force OF tour h1ndred sharp
shooters against the Sixth Federal corps,
south of Petersburg. the Federal picker
line was broken aud the Contederates with
drew alter capturing few prisoners The
Confederaies siate their total loss III The bat.
tie al For Sleadman at eight hundred Gen.
Crook is now in comma and of the cavalry OF
Grants army On Monday last a Federal
Of ypa mi huSCAHP1
near pacher's run, and lost eight men
few days before, another parry was attacked
in the same locality aud lost nineteen men
The Fedora. infantry expedition that
sailed up The Rappahannock river some
time since 10 capture the tobacco at Fred
ericksburs has been heard from. Ii march
ed overland from Fredsr ck<blrg 10 WGI'a
House, anG accompanied Sheridan IN his
march across ina Peninsula 10 Harrson'>
Landing. FMS infantry force which was
originally detached from Grants army Is
is now encam ped in bis lines OF the north
side of the James
Genera! Stoneman's Federal cavalry ex-
pedinou was on Saturday last near Jones
boro' in Easl Tennessee, one hundred miles
from Knoxville aud aboui forty mIie~ from
the West Virginia boundary. Fhe Federal
infantry force ha- not ye' ls!l Knoxville.
The Confederate vessel Shenandoah was
al Melbourne. Australia on January 25.
F0m the Ags -of Apru 3d
General Grant has gradually closed his
lines around Petersburg. The Conieder-
ates have abandoned heir works defending
the Sonth-,de railroad and al those easl
and west of PETERSBURG roey sui hold
ibe amer line defending tae CITY. The
fsbiius has heeu coatinnous since Wei
nesday aod al hs.f past toor les;erday wa
siill raging.
The Federal expe6riou sgaiasI the South
side railroad IS eommaoced by !Geeefai'
Meade and Grant 10 person itis compo-
ed o Bdmphreys Second eorp- uumrer-
,ng ,weul, eight ihousapd Warens r
corps. uunverIrg tweny-Ihres thousand
AMI Snsridsns cavalry nQmosrnz mae
tuuasaad; wsoty FIVE hundred being fnoon.
81. ti,e o,tsrs dismoun4ed. rhs expedirioa
5 .ixty ihoosaad srooa and was orderec
| 10 slsr, on "Wednesday last. Two distsioh
Of the Tweni, fourth corps, from ne nou
| hank of The James, crossed the rIver o
| Tuesday and were sent 10 Hatcher rur
10 occupJ he Federal euIrencamenis Or
fuesliay night Ihess iro1ps held the WORK
and The Second and F'iih corps lav "a lh'
rSar OF ,bep prepared Tor The moyemen
| next morning.
H4scLer's run fow- southeast from h
| Sonth.,ds railroad Il .. cros>sd by severa
| common roads running southwest from
Pelersburg Five miles from The Soothsid
railroad, is ,hs Boyctown plank road run
! ming TO Dinuiddie Court House, thirteel