Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1865-04-01
,TURDAY'S BATTLE! !
ANT AGAIN SsSEOEs9Du'S
Lee Once More I'hNarted.
e CAPTTRE OF FORT STEADMAN.
S RECAPTURE By GEN. HARTRANTT
!ndid Gallantry OF Penusylvanians
10 Rebels KILLED, Wounded, and
PRISONERS.
:ANT AGAIN VICTORIOUS
OFFICIAL WAR GAZETTE.

iAsHrNGToN, March o., 1.3O p. M.-To
or General DiX;-The following official
rrts of the operations of the Army of the
omac on Saturday, and OF General Sher-
IS operations since he lett Fayetteville,
been received this morning.
eneral Sherman was at Goldsboro' on
22d of this month.
10 movements have been made on either
. before Richmond and Petersburg since
drday night. EDwIN VI, STANTON,
Secretary of War.
iTY PoINT, Va, March 81, 1890 \. NJ
=. Edwin NJ. Stanton, Secretary of War:
he battle of the 25th resulted in the fol-
ing losses On our side -
Killed. Wounded. Kissing
ond Corps 81 ACE III
til Corps AZ 40l 50
th Corps Gs 33S JO6
lur captures were by the Second Corps,
Sixth Corps, 400; Ninth Corps, 1919.
he Second and Sixth Corps pushed for
d and captured the enemy's strongly h..
lched picket line and turned it against
l and still. hold it. Lee trying to rctake
:, the battle was continued unhl eo'clock
light, the enemy losing very heavily.
General Humphreys estimates the loss of
enemy in his front at three times his
n, and General Wright estimates in his
Mt their loss as double. The enemy sent
az OF truce yesterday for permission to
icct his wounded and buyy his dead
ich were between what had been their
ket line and their main line OF tortihca
us. The permission vas granted.
L. S. GRA3T, Lieutenant General.
'ITY POINT, March 81, IL 4. M.-Hon
win VI. Stanton, Secretary of War. l am
receipt Of Sherman's report Of operations
m tue time he left Fayetteville up 20 the
iust.
Il shows hard fighting, resulting in very
Wy loss to the enemy III killed and wound
i, and over two thousand prisoners il
r hands.
lis own loss, he says, will be covered by
thousand five hundred men since he
Savannah. Many Of them arc but slight
wounded
,Signed) L. S. GRANT, Lieut.. General.
Four o'clock a. NJ, an adventurous Rebe
lcer attempted to relieve General Wilcox
;kets. Riding down the line, he CAV,
tiers :or the men to fall in, march i'm
diately to their regiments, announcing II
same time that the Ninth Corps Was t
rch instantly. Some Of the pickets, to,
ry to be caught with chatf fired on him
d then opened brisk skirmish fight
&C morning was very dark, the movement
the Rebels during the night were entirel.
known to our officers, and this picke
ing being no unusual thing on that par
the line, aroused 10 great attention. Still
garrisons of the as started from thei
Is and stood to thvr guns, ready. as the
d been scores Of times before, for an
Iergeney.
At FIVE o'clock the Rebels opened fror
cir works-SpIing Hill Battery, opposit
eadman, the S-inch mortar battery on il
5ht, and Goose Neck, Clifton and Cheste
Id on the north side Of the river. III
20 latter works being More on Our hsn
an font, belched forth simultaneousl
ar artiieriats, still supposing it nothirl
ore than challenge u one of the old due
common between them, sprang to tae
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