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OUR ARMIES BEFORE RICHMOND: Particulars of the Movement on Thursday; Graphic Account of the Operations on Both Sides of the James (10/31/1864)
New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 10/31/1864
Posted on 10/31/2024 7:48:03 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Special Dispatch to the New-York Times.
WASHINGTON, Sunday, Oct. 30.
The letters of our special correspondents with the army of the Potomac and the army of the James, herewith transmitted, will give your readers a clear conception of the character and results of Gen. GRANT'S last operation. There is no disaster to record; no repulse to chronicle. Our losses are such as are incident to any encounter with a vigilant and vigorous antagonist. Our forces now rest where they did before this move was initiated, within their impregnable lines. There only remains the addition of another chapter to the marvelous history of the siege of Richmond -- a siege more wonderful and now almost as long as that of Sebastopol.
By months of arduous labor, GRANT has step by step, pushed his lines of circumvallation and contravallation steadily westward; tapped their communications by the Weldon Road, and gained a position from which he could seriously threaten the Southside road. The same intrenched line that envelopes Petersburgh has been extended west and southward to cover the Southside road, and a vault of a dozen miles still brought our army face to face with those tantalizing and troublesome works. In this state of facts no results of value could be hoped for, and, after waiting, as announced in this dispatch, till Friday night, to invite an attack from the enemy, he was compelled to retire.
The only misfortune to be regretted in this move was the advantage gained by the enemy over HANCOCK's Corps, which before the Fifth Corps was able to form connection with it found its right flank turned, and suffered a loss of about one thousand men.
The operations on the north side of the James are of so obvious a character,
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