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RICHMOND: Advance of Gen. Grant; The North Bank of the James River (9/30/1864)
New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 9/30/1864
Posted on 09/30/2024 6:24:42 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
FROM SECRETARY STANTON TO GEN. DIX.
[OFFICIAL.]
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.
The following dispatch from Gen. GRANT, announcing the movement of our forces against Richmond, has just been received:
HEADQUARTERS, CHAPIN's FARM, 10:45 A.M., Thursday, Sept. 29.
Major-Gen. Halleck:
Gen. ORD's corps advanced this morning and carried the very strong fortifications and long line of intrenchments below Chapin's Farm, some fifteen pieces of artillery, and from two to three hundred prisoners.
General ORD was wounded, though not dangerously.
General BIRNEY advanced at the same time from Deep Bottom, and carried the Newmarket Road and intrenchments, and scattered the enemy in every direction, though he captured but few.
He is now marching on toward Richmond.
I left Gen. BIRNEY where the Mill road intersects the Newmarket and Richmond road.
This whole country is filled with fold fortifications thus far. (Signed,)
U.S. GRANT, Lieutenant-General.
EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War.
WASHINGTON, Thursday, Sept. 29.
A dispatch just received from Gen. GRANT, gives a telegram contained in yesterday's Richmond Whig, dated at Charlottesville, which states that our cavalry entered Staunton on Monday at 8 o'clock A. M.; that our forces were also at Waynesboro'; that no damage had been done up to 4 P.M., but that smoke indicated that they were burning the railroad track between Christian Creek and Staunton.
No direct communication has been had with Gen. SHERIDAN for several days. Couriers to and from him are known to have been captured by the guerrillas that infest the country in his rear.
Dispatches to 9:40 last night have been received from Gen. SHERMAN at Atlanta, but no movements at that point are reported.
From Nashville our dispatches are to 9 1/2 o'clock last night. The enemy did not attack at Pulaski, but took, the pike toward Fayetteville,
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