Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-04-08

uILsos STATION, va. April 4

WILSON STATION, va, ApTi -
Hon, E. N. SisaiOs
The army is pHshing forward In The hope
I, of oves,akinr or Dispensing the remainder
of Lees army. Sheridnn's cavalry and
tbe btb corps are between. this and the
Apnomottox. General Meade and the 2d
and 0th corps are following Ord along the
line Of the Son,bside Il. r. All Of the
enemy that retains anything like orgauiz,
tion have gone north Of Appomattox and
apparently heading for Lynchburg. Their
losses have been very henvy The houses
,hrensh the country are nearly all used as
hospitals for the wounded. Ia every direc.
iicn | hear Of rebel soldiers pushing for
home. some in large nnd some ia small
squads, and generally without utmS. Our
cavalry pusued them so clostS that the
enemy have been forced to destroy great
part of their transportation, caissons and
munitions Of war. The number of prison.
ers captured yesterday, exceeds 1900
From the 2Sth of March to the present
time. our loss in killed, wounded and cop
'ured, will not, probably, reach 1000, o:
whom from l,5C0 to 000 we're cap ured
and many but slightly wounded.
We shall continue the pursuit as long as
theresppears TO lie any use Of it.
U. S. GRASr' L. Gsnsr al.
ARDFrAHrMRSr,
WAsHiSGTos, April, 5, 1863
To pAj. Con. nix:
The following telegram gives oil the de-
! tails received by this department In iels-
lion TO the military operations at Rich
mond not heretofore published by Edwin
NJ Stanton, Secretary Of war:
Aitens Landing Va. April 5, II so,rn.
To Hon. Z. 81. Stanton, secretary of War Is
Little is know at CEy Point There are
but few officers left, and these are over
whelmed with work. Lee teegrspbed TO
Davis q, 80, Sunday. that he was. driven
back and must ovacua,e. This was an.
nounced in church. Davis had sold his
furniture at auction and was ready to leave
All be leading men sct away that even
irg.
The rebel iron clads were exploded The
VI gieia lies sunk in the James River,
above the distractions. Ewel set tbs
city on FIRE. The btidgcs ccross The run
were also Destroyed. Many Of the families
remain. Mrs Lee remains
Al Petersburg the public 3 eres were
burned, and few houses caught FIRE, but
not much damage was done to them. Al
the bridges there, were also DESTROYED.
! will report fdly from Richmond.
cannot get clear idea of our loss. The
on'y General killed is Wiothrop Potter
S dangerously wounded General g en-,
has commanded the armies ia person since
be beginung of he Operations.
G. a. DANA, Asst. Sec. OF War.
Wan DEPARTMENT,
WASHINGTON, April 5th.
General Grant t. hleg-apbs to this De.
oar;mcn', from Not;away Court Hou,e,
IS follows:
Last night General Sheridan vas on The
Oanviile Rlilroad, south of Amelia Court
House, aud sent word TO General Meade,
\" ho was following with the 2i and 9Th |
corps by what is known as the River
Road, that if The troops could lie go, up
in time he had hopes of capturing or dis.
persing the whole of Lce's army. | All
moving with the left wiug commanded by
General Old, b. the Cox or direct Burks
vile road
We will be 10 night, ell or near Parks
vile. | have had no communcs tion with
Sheridan or Meade to day, but hope to
hear very soon that they have come NJ
with, aud captured or broken up the bal.
ance o: the army Of Northern Virginia -
ln every direction We hear of men of ,ha,
army going home, generally with their
arms. Sheridan reports LIE at Amelia