The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-04-12
GENERAL GRANT.
More About the Pursuit.
Surrender of 10000 Men.
still More Details Of the Pursuit Of
the Rebel Army.
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Press Dispatchl
NEW iokk, April 1.-THE World :
Army of the Potomac correspondent d
tails the pursuit of Lees army, dating
near Rier's station, 9TH. He says: After
/ another day Ofexcitelnenta and success we
have q few miles more of the enemy )
l soil The enemy were driven from strong
| Notifications guarding the approaches
l to the magnificent bridge crossing the
| IAppomattox The enemy had strong,
we'll stocked forts, and though We antic
l mated determined resistance, We cap
! tured them with but little trouble, with
all that was i'm them. securing " pieces
| of all fashions and calibres The enemy
| then fell back and took "a position near
Farmsville Here they held us the en-
l tire remainder Of the day, notwithstahd-
ing strong efforts OH the part OF the "a
| corps to dislodge them, The enemy
tried several times to cnr his way
| through our lines. bnt always with snch
/ fatal effects to himself that he finally
! abandoned the attempt The 2ddlviSlon
| was sent down the railroad In seize the
| village of Farmsville which they did
without trouble. Previously they had
ii SklIIllSu, Ill Whlth "'t'i -
! is feared, mortally wounded. Gen Ew-
! ell after his capture, said Gen Lee long
| since wanted to take all his II 'nps west
ward and there disband them, but DAVIS
would not consent
Another correspondent, dating Bnrks
vile, April 7th, says: Yesterday Sher-
| dan discovered force of the enemy and
| a large wagon train pushing briskly to-
| wards their man army He immediate
] ly pushed ahead his troops and ionnd the
/ enemy in a position from which they
| were driven, and after hard fighting they
| fell back to another position, from winch
Sheridan with his cavalry alone could
not dislodge them The Second and
Sixth corps were brought up and put III
position, which they held through The
night. Next morning Custer was sent
forward to barricade the road'the rebels
would take in retreating. The formation
of the infantry being complete, the charge
was ounded. The rebels held our troops
at bay for time, but our men finally
rushed upon them, when they fled down
| the pike, where they were met by Custer
and held in check. The enemy, finding
they could not get past Custer, turned
again upon the infantry They charged
impetuously, and then our troops coun-
tercharged, when the enemy h"l,ted the
white flag and surrendered. Ii was in
this fight that Ewell and the other Off
GERS were captured, and not only out
fought, but handsomely Out-generaled
The aggregate value OF property de-
stroyed in Richmond foots up ~, ,l45, ,26D.
Imposing as these figures appear, they
are far short of the truth, for the reason
already stated, that real estate was be-
fore the war invariably assessed much be-
low the value it would have commanded
in the market.
All the hospitals of Richmond have
been taken possession OF by the military
authorities and are used for the care aud
comfort equally OF the Federal and Con
federate sick and wounded A number
of Confederate surgeons left in the city
have been paroled to attend to the Con-
federate sick and wounded. The CHM
borazo, Winder. Jackson, aud Howard's
Grove Hospitals, the principal CoHfeder-
ate hospitals, are used for the accommo-
datiOn of Federal wounded. Their ac-
commodatiOns are for $4,000 beds, which
accommodations were left entire by the
Confederate authorities.
Castle Thunder is used as receptacle
for citizen prisoners of whom quite a
number are gathered there.
Manchester was not at all disturbed
| BY the pillagers OIL Monday lat, neither
did the fire reach that trans-James dis
trict. A pOntoOn bridge spans the river
l now and connects Richmond with Man
chester, and we hope that business will
| soon revive and pervade both sections
| alike.
Churches of all the religious denomi.
| nations whose pastors rena,nrd IN the
| city were open yesterday and services
/ were conducted in them as usual, in
presence of large congregations, good
proportion being composed of officrrsand
soldiers of the Union army. In the
| Episcopal churches the regular form Of
| services was observed with the single
] ey ception of the prayer for the Presi-
dent of the Confederate States, as insert
cd in the liturgy, which was made in-
stead for all in authority. AS the United
/ States is the power in authority the
L PRAYER for the President of the United
States was of course implied, if not said
The RichmondlWhi ON the Consiitu-
tionaI IAmendmeut-AN National Bank
20 be Essablished In Richmond-Reb
ell virginia Soldiers Making their
WAY Home.
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WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE Rich
i ,,nnd Who of Monday ia rrceiyel In