Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1871-01-21

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found Ia the oheis i,1umh
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a9th Cof sfss,-hi sVts
from hlmseifio haiOf Gsnsl (, lit
Ter, dated thu 2nd ofApsi la f
sontA'biug distractions fer f'.r
proaet.ns 'srpsiga, it Whii y
says Nt
eY3u WI. eoiistl az tho tsge
f'oa, your e1mrahd that esa NJ
sparsJ rom saff,aoh dGty--is,cD
say not lsss lbGl twoaiy thonsaf,
effective Mhi--to operate "a lh
south eide a. IEmss Eiser, R'eh
mond bsips Jour object polnt. 70
! the force vol already have wiz be
' aided abou, ten thossAnd men ff9m
South g.-ol;na, under Major Cover.
p. n Gllrs~4s who wiN clmmsni
them IN peslsn. MGjcr General W.
! &, Smith 4 ordered 10 report IN
1 you, 20 command lhe troops tent
into the doli from yosC 1wa depart
neht." fheae troops, aNlar Smith
I nd GilmorC, Afterwards eoNstitut,d
! tho Army NJ tho Iamcs, az tdor
/ Eunar. Gran; slso says IN N.e
sAuis report, y
I"A yer! considerable ldrce under
command OF Malus General s'gol
was so hV.i Tor The protection OF
Wes, Virginia, and the iruntisgs Of
Maryland and Pennsylvania. =
General Sigcl was therefore diroc-
ted 20 organize all his available
f0roO into two expeditions, 10 move
from Beverly and Charleston, undor
command ofG Generals Ord and Crook
against Tho East Tennessee and
Virginia railroad. Subsequently,,
/ Genera. Ord having been relieved
st his )wn request General Sigal
vas instructed, Mt bis own slgget'
lion, 10 give up the expedition by
Beverly and 10 form two columns,
ono under General Crook, on the
Ksnawha, Wandering about ton
thousand men, and ono on tho
Shenandoah, numbering aboat seven
thoussnd msn."
He further says
lowing TO tho weather and bad
condition Of the roads; operations
wor@ delayed until the LIST Of May,
when, everything being in readiness
and the roads favorable, orders were
given Tor a general m0yomensofall
the armies not latter than tho 4th &C,
Nay y
Thu movement under the imme'
diate suporirlenianco Of Grant, ca
tho Rapideh, begun IN fact on Tho
night OF the 3rd, with the Army OF
the Potomac and the 'Hinth Corps,
and tho foregoing extracts from
Grants report chow that the armies
under Butler and Sigel constituted
no part oS the force which Mr.. Stan
ton sete down at 14l 100, on the lot
Of May 1864, The above statement
lfrolh Stanton report shows chat
there was in tho Department. OF
Washington" Mt the very same
time, an available force for duty of
AZ, l24, and in the Middle Depart
ment" Cat yBaltimore) a like ioree
of 5,627, making an aggregate foTeu
of 47,751 within q fow hoars run 6g
Grants army byrail and steamboat
So that lwith Tho force Of SO ,la9 10
the Department of Virginia snd
North Car~lina and OF 80, 192 iu thgl
Department ofWeat virgins, 2siQEisGs 4
had, besides his ARM ~
dan, and available S3rIiVEg<
to draw upon for Lis e,S%lt
Virginia, making in mn SG \
force of 27e,s32 immediately
able for that purpose, besides whaEI
could be drawn from otherguasturei
where there was no hostile force to
confront. That nearly the whoisi
force at Washington and Baltimoroj
was added to his ernysbsfore IL
reached james River, 10 shown by
the following extrset from Mr..
Stsnton's report. On page 7 hsI
says:
"Meanwhiio in order TO repair thasI
losses Of the Army OF the Potomsc,
the chief part Of the forcs designed
to guard the middle department. and
the department. at Washington was
called forward to the 'front.' Taking
advantage of this state OF affairs ~
the absence of Gen. Hunters com n
mand the enemy made large don
tachment from their army at Richa
mond, which, under Genernl EarlyJ
moved down tho Shenandoah Val-s
Hey, threatening Baltimore and.
Washington."
Tbs reinforccments from Wash-s
tiugton and Baltimore actually reach-
ed Grant at Spotsylyania Q, m;
whore, he says; Tho l3tNisy y.Aely]
/ 10Th, 10th, rS ss
were conaun1 = ", M
sisais.Is asnts from NV
was before G f
lro-iniorVea W. 7sfc
addition 10 80
Mr.. Stanton
4 the conclusio
the Governor
Illinois, Iowa an
ed s5, 900 hund.s
4 2lst Of April lSe
twenty days, wis.,
and the greater z a
raised, and thattheS<
sons andrelieved expe&SN
which were sent 10 re'N
armies 10 the feld-soEsF
hundred days men being sea
front ct their own rsouest
der. then, to sabstandste his =
ition, that Grants force for dass 4
| the field at the Wilderness was IN.
lly 5000 men, Gen. Bad-sr -
show that Mr.. Stantsa - ~
4 =