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LATEST ARMYNEWg
From North GeorgiaNear
Marietta, Ga., June 30?6 p. n
The enetny, at 11 o'clock this mornio;
made a demonstration to attack befot
CleburneVliqe, who anticipated a nigl
attack. Folk's brigade opened fire, whic
exteuded along Cheatham's line. Whe
at an angle of our lines on the left centri
the enemy's works are withiu 40 yard
3 of ours. There has been hepvy muske
ry firing on both sides, which continue
for an hour, producing the impression <
a general attack, but the enemy soc
withdrew. Their attempted surprise^
such was contemplated, proved a failur
We lost a few wounded, principally 1
our own fire. Col. Jones, of the 33
Tenn., was killed by a chance Minn
ball this morning.
uicui. vjcu. utcnuiiiijsuiucn uumuiuu
of the late Gen. Polk's corps to morroi
Prom North CarolinaGoldsboro',
N. C., July 1.?A despatc
from Weldon, dated yesterday, say:
' The Yankee raiders struck the Peter
burp and "Weldon Railroad to-day ue;
Bellfield."
QA later despatch, direct from JMlfiel
states that much of the enemy's artiller
together with his wagon train, had bet
captured, and that the greater part of tl
raicfers would probably be captured 'als
A fight is reported to have occurred t
day near Ream' Station. The raide
have gone from Morgautown, throuj
^ Watauga, burning the Railroad Dep
and passenger train. Our troops a
P . - *' after them.
Latest News From the Virgin
Papers.
We copy from the Richmond E
quirer of Monday last the followii
despatches, showing the state of affai
in Virginia on Saturday and Suudu
A synopsis of these despatches has s
ready appeared in oui> telegraphic ci
urns:
The following are the latest publishi
de&natchep from General T?et?:
H-qtJ Army Northern Va.,
June 25, 18G4.
Honorable Secetan/ of War:
Sir: General W. II. F. Lee pursu
the enemy's cavalry which adyano
along the Southside railroad. lie hi
a skirmish on the 22d near Dinwidd
C. H., and the nest day struck the
column in flank, near Black's ai
White's, cutting it iu two, and gettii
s possession of the road by which th
were moving towards Nottoway Cou
- - House.
The road was held after an engag
incut which continued from 12 M. uu
dark, the enemy making repeated i
tempts to break through and rejoin I
advance. He withdrew from Genei
Lee's front at daylight on the 24t
leaving his dead and wounded on tl
fieid, taking the road to Ilungarytov
und Kcysville. General Lee is sti
followiug them.
Very respectfully, &c., R. E: Le
1 i General.
Headquarters, _
Army of Northern Virginia,
Jnne 25, 18G4?9, p. m.
Hon. Secretary of War:
Sir : Our entire loss yesterday mor
ing was ninety-seven killed and wouud<
and two hundred and nine missing.
Nothing of moment has occurred t
m day on the liues* in front of Berrnui
v ' Hundred and around Petersburg.
General Hampton reports that tl
enemy's cavalry advanced yesterday
Nance's Shop and entrenched themselv
there. He attacked them and dro
"S them from their works, pursuing the
until 9, p* m., to withiu two miles
. Cbarlcs City Court House.
9 - They left their d^ad and wouoded
the field and along the route. Great e re
it is due to General Haniton and I
command for their handsome success.
' * . Very respectfully,
It. E. Lee, General.
gTbcre would appear to have been litl
or uo fighting near Petersburg on Sati
day or Sunday. The Petersburg Expri
gives the following account of the tig!
which took place on Thursday evenin
23d instant, near the Weldon /failroa
in the vicinity of the Six Mile House:
Gen. Mahone was speedily despatcbe
. at the head of a body of troops, to dri
the rascals off. Upon approaching tl
i spot about one hundred-fifty of Grant
horsemen were discovered displacii
i%ils and removing sills. They fled pr
ciptately upon the appearance of oi
forces; but it was soon ascertained tlx
there was a heavy body of infantry
. * / il_ _ a__ 1_ y r
the woods, east 01 too iracx, maBsea 1
the purpose of supporting the cavlary.
Gen. JMabone threw forward a hca\
line of skirmishers, engaged the attentic
of the blue coats, and then put into ex
cution one of those flanking movemen
for which he has become somewhat not(
during this campaign. About twiligl
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Perry's brigade, now commanded by Gen.
Finnegan, succeeded in swinging around,
' and brought up in rear of the enemy.
A volley or two in the rear put the eue.
[ my to thinking, and another volley or
two brought about a very lively doublequick
on thoir part. . We succeeded in
securing only four hundred and eighty! "
three of the invaders, the remainder
^ running so swiftly that it was found iuiJ
possible to overtake them,
y The prisouers were marched into the
city yesterday forenoon, about 10 o'clock,
IC and turned over to Major Bridgeford,
> General Lee's Provost Marshall. There
was ten commissioned officers among the
r number, but none higher than the rank
of Colonel. These'prisoners, in point of
- appearance or morals, are no improvement
upon former instalments. They
seem to have been collected from every
quarter of the globe, both civilized and un
0 civilized; and elicited from a spectator
in our vicinity the remark "That Grant
b had scrap?d all creation with a fine tooth
n comb for men to reinforce his depleted
*' ranks."
Is
t. From Raleigh, No. Ca.
:(J Tlie Confederate publishes tin extra
3f to-day-gfrom Gaston July 1 ?saying, I
id reach^pfrere to-day after two and a half
if days jotnmey from Petersburg. I dont
e. thiuk the road will be repaired for a
,y month to Petersburg.
;j Fighting has been going on for severie
al days past on the railroad near
Bean's station. There was heavy fightid
ing there yesterday. The advantage was
v. on our side. Our men are confident of
our ability to hold Petersburg. The
Yankees continue to shell the city every
day. Part of it has been badly damaged,
' * though few persons were killed.
3* The Yankees loss since the fight com,ir
menced is thought to be 20, 000. Our
loss 1500.
' Chatnblis met the Yankee raiders un5'
der Wilson and Spears and killed, wounMl
ded and captured 3000. He captured
1C 1500 head of horses, all their artillery
?* (15 pieces,), all their wagon trains, bag?*
gage and ammunition. This happened
r& on Wednesday, near Stoucy Creek. Four
'1 hundred negroes were also captured
It is said to be the most complete route
re we have ever seen.
Nothing of importance from the Georia
gia Frout. Everything quiet there.
From Gen. Johnston's Lines.
Marietta, Ga., July 2.?Nothing
'g new but the usual skirmishing to day.
rs A sergeant and two privates came in this
" .' / ' ? i* mi _
' moruiug Iroiu toe lanncc lines, mer
1 " terms had expired, but they were not
allowed to leave. The}' represent Shermau's
army as much dispirited and
averse to prolonging hostilities. Many
whose terms expire in July uud
I August have determined not to tight
3 Mariktt.v July 2, p. m.-Bj a kind
of tacit agreement there has been but
little musketry fifing during the last
, two days. Yesterday evening ilie enemy
attempted to take a battery from Gener.
al Cleburne's line, bu' failed.
' Late Cincinnati papers say that during
. j the late skirmishing, from the loth to
j the 18th justs., they lost 4500 men, ae
ci' | shown by the official medical records.
irl I The Chattanooga Gazette, of the 29th,
j contains a despatches from Sherman to
'e~ i Dix, dated the 28th, 6aying that "ou
j yesterday we made an unsuccessful at'f*
j tack on the enemy's position, losing between
200 and 300 men. The loss was
a particularly heavy amongst officers. Gen
? Parker was mortally wounded Col. D.
McCook, commanding a brigade, were
!? seriously wounded. Col. Crankin, of the
40tb, and Augustin, of the 33d Illinois,
were killed. We to<?k a few prisoners,
c> but dou't suppose that we inflicted heavy
loss, as the enemy kept under cover."
' From the United States.
j Atlanta, July 2.?The Louisville
Journal of the 26th ult- has been ren.
ccived.
Guerrilla operations conliuue in Wes.tern
Kentucky A light bad occurred
0_ near Uniontown. Another party demandJa
ed the surreudder of Owcnsboro, bat retired
after occupying Cleveport aud
|ie Ilawesville.
to The six months' men have been dees
tained by tho authorities for reasons
ve unknown.
;m The. "Washington Star, of the 24tb
of ult-, says that Grant's works command
Petersburg and the Railroad through
on Petersburg, they stopping all continuous
;J. communication between Richmond and
jjs the South. So long as Grant chooses he
can hold the enemy in this present position,
by threatening him, while at any
time he may move Southward with
qe | twenty days rations. Lee niU6t then folir.
low him, or risk a heavy engagement on
n5S unfortified ground,
it. Secretary Dana, who had just arrived
g( from Grant's headquarters, says that his
d, entire loss before Petersburg is over teu
thousand.
The correspondent of the Chattanooga
vc Rebel say9 that a force of Confederates
|)C has cut the Railroad above Tilton, and
;'s captured and burned two Yaukee trains,
jrr heavily laden with supplies. Travel on
e'. the trains was very demoralizing in
Jr consequence of the frequent ambushes of
at the Confederates.
in The rebel General Archer has been
ur transferred from Johnson's Island to
Washington. He will be sent to Gen.
ry Foster, to be placed under rebel fire in
)n Charleston.
e- A debate took place in the Yankee
ts House of Representatives on 25th ult, on
;d I the repeal ot ttie commutation clause or
lit I the draft law. Scbenck, of Ohio, supt
^
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ported the repeal. He said thai the
rebelliou must be put down; if not uow,
hereafter; if not in ten year9, then in
; twenty years. If peace could be made
to-day, every sensible man knows that it
could not last sixty days. If wc recognise
the Southern Confederacy, as a dis
tin'ct nation, with borders stretching from
the Potomac to the Gulf of Mexico, we
may expect war, murder and everything
else. Dale of New York, opposed the
repeal of the commutation clause. Gar'
~ < ? -1 .1 . :r .1
Iieia said mat 11 iue emuiuuwhuh
"were repealed, the armies would not be
adequate, nor would the frelellion be
put down, during his term of Congress,
nor under this administration ?
Mallory, of Kentucky, said that conscription
was the worst policy that the Government
could bossibly adopt.
In New York on the 28th ult., gold
opened at 215, but declined to 214, and
then again advanced, closing at 22 H.
On that day it was reported tbat $1,000000
in sterling had changed bauds for
238 in currency.
Raid on Morganton and Camp
Vance.
Our citizens were startled yesterday
evening*hbout 6 o'clock, to learn that
two or three hundred deserters, tories
and yrfbkecs, hud made a raid on Mor-.
ganton and Camp Vance, in Burke county,
taking possession of them and capturing
one passenger train on the Western
N. C. Iload. Maj. Wilson, Chief
Engineer, came down on the train which
went up iu the morning, having been
met and stopped by a young titan from
Camp Vance who made his escape trout
there after the enemy had entered. He
reported them to consist of four companies.
There is.no further account as to
their movements.
Force wejn immediatately detached
from the C. 5?. Prison in this place, and
set forward about!) o'clock, on the train,
to meet the enemy, if he will remain
long enougli to be seen; and another train
of voluutepr troops was got off about 4
o'clock. If the enemy shall linger on
the road, it will not be long until he will
have something to do.
[Salisbury Watchman, 29th
Another Horrible Outrage by the
m Enemy.
Recently, while Sheridan's thieves
were crossing King Odliutn, l)r. Downer,
one of the oldest and most respected re
sidents of his section, and well known in
, ! Richmond, sent his horses off in order to
| save them from capture. The Yankees
came and learning f.'oui some uegrocs 1
! that Dr.- Downer had sent his horses I
| away, demanded of him tint he should j
I tell them whither he had sent them, j
; This Dr. Downer lxfusc-d to do, whefxi- i
upon they threatened to hang him, and j
! put a rope around his neck drawiug it so i
tight that the blood spirted out of his j
, cars and nose. Refusing still to impart j
the coveted information, the demoniac j
. devils threw the r<?pe over the limb of [
a tree and drew the doctor up, letting '
, It i ui hang untjj life was nearly gone and;
, J lie could scarcely speak. Still refusing :
I to divulge the whereabouts of his pro- j
perty the wretches drew him pp to a|
height of twenty or thirty feet, and j
, letting go the rope, caused him to fall i
heavily and insen-ihle upon the ground, i
They went off, after robbing the house?!
leaving their victim fur dead, with mine i
near but his distareted wife to render j
any refief. At last account. Dr. Downer i
was slowly dying Our pen sickens in
the frequent reiteration of such hell
deserving outrages as this we have chronicled.
Cleburne Plays the Yankees a
Trick.
The army correspondent of the Grif- j
fin Rebel writing from the front under
date of21st ult., says :
Last night, very suddenly, Gen. Cle- j
burne withdrew his vidcttes and skirm- \
isbers in such a manner as to leave the ,
impression that he had evacuated his i
works. On finning this the Yankee j
skirmish line moved rapidly up to 4he ;
works witii a yell, each one trying to be i
the first to enter the rebel entrenchineut.
"But Lindon saw another sight."
1 Their surprise may he very easily imagined
when they reached the works
1 and were ordered to surrender, which
they very quietly did, with out the fire
1 ofagnn. Their maiu liuc advanced, be1
fore they saw the trick, far enough for
Cleburne to pay his reopects to theiu in ;
the way of a 'oil ey into their ranks,
which sent them howling to the hiding
places* The net proceeds of this trick
were forty live Yankees.
Prom Petersburg
Petersburg, June 28, At 7 o'clock
matters unchanged. There lias been the
usual cannonading and picket firing.
The lines of the two armies at some .
points are not over 200 yards apart. I
Uur.troops are in excellent, spines sou j
much refreshed by the raiu and cool
weather, which is also favorable to the
wounded
It is reported that Burnsidcs corps
has gone to Washington.
A Yankee Lieutenant captured on
Tuesday, says Grant is going to tear Petersburg
to pieces with shot and shell, in
a day or two.
Gold was quoted in New York on the
25th, at 243. ' [
A private letter from Petersburg
that the euemy continue to shell the city.
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J. T. HERSHMAN?Editor.
Camden, Wednesday, July 6,
Rains.
Throughout the greater portion of our
district we have been blessed with refreshing
rains-during the past few days.
They were welcomed heartily, ^y farpier
and planter.
Central Bureau, Columbia.
Cars will be desDatched fur Lee's and
w ** r
Beauregard's armies July 15; for John
ston's army, July 19. Address M*
LaBorde, Chairman, Columbia, S. C.
Another Success of Hampton's
Cavalry.
A private dispatch, dated July 1st,
froui Stoney Creek, says O.en. Hampton
fought the enemv under Wilson, all
night, and completely defeated them.
Stnney Creek is twenty-one miles from
Petersburg, on the Weldon Road.
General Gardner, captured near Port
Hudson, says the Yankee papers, has
been sent from Fort Lafayette to General
Foster, in front of Charleston.
We arc authorized to say that Cant.
W. L. DkPass is a candidate for elcction
to the Legislature of South Carolina,
and will serve, if it is the will of the p opie
of the District that he should occupy
the position. It is not his intention to
leave the service, od the event of his
election, but to remain in the service of
his country as long as there may be an
enemy confronting us.
JThe President of ' The Rest" in behalf
of the passing soldiers desires to J
thank the Ladies of Camden for their
kind attention in refreshing them with
comfortable food and lodging on their
way to their homes; also, to those
? -ii- ?..
nave so Kinuiy sem pmvisiuna kj uc
prepared for tliem at night and other
times, when it would be inconvenient
for the President to notify them of their
arrival-.
Time of Service Expiring.
We learn from reliable authority that
^the time of service of 8000 of S1 ernian'jf
troops'expired on Saturday the 25u!t
The time of at least 5000 of the niiscegcnators
expir.d between Ilcsaca aud Dalton,
the rtiurc-stoniMches receiving a final
discharge by reason of reb 1 bullets.
This is the best way fur their time of
of service to expire, to benefit us.
The first number of the Camden Daily
Journal made its appearance on Friday
mnruing last. From the talent engaged
in the editorial department, the correctness
of its fypoeraphy, clear print, and the
absolute want of such a paper in our
district, we cannot see why it should fail
to be appreciated, and receive a liberal
support from the citizens of Kershaw
and adjoining districts. The enterprise
is deserving of encouragement, and will
? li_ ;? __ -
(K! 01 lnvaiuaoic service, a? u lucuiuui
for advertising and receiving the latC9t
war intelligence?at least twelve hours
in advance of any of the city dailies.
There appears to be a question of v^.
racity up betweeu Gens. Burbridge and
Morgan, concerning Hie losses of the latter
in Kentucky. lJu;bridge tclchraphed
that Morgan lost 300 killel, 300 wounded,
400 prisoners, making an aggregate
loss of 1000. Morgan says that he has
lost 170 men from his command. The
presumption is, therefore, that Gen. Burbridge
told a lie. Though Burbridge
represented that Morgan's force was
wholly demoralized and dispersing
through the country, he seems to have
been unable to follow him, for, according
to the latest Yankee accounts, Morgan
was in Flemingsburg on the 14th, with
3000 men, declaring that he would not
leave Kentucky. We c 'Delude that he
is not baldy hurt yet.
[rOtl the CAMDEN CONFEDERATE.]
To the Citizens of Camden and its
Vicinity
Your assistance is required by the Ladies
Aid Association to send on a box of
hospital stores to the Way-aide Home, in
Richmond.
Contributions in money, provisions,
rags, or anything suitable for that pur-!
pose, will be received by Mr. Bonney,
Mr Kennedy or the ladies at their ball
?at any tiuie before the lit Thursday
in July.
fl.ni /I in Wnnr VAwIF
uf/iu iu ngn x vi aA
gentleman, who left New York three
weeks ago, inform us that no reliance can
be placed on the gold quotations of the
New York-papers. At the time when
gold was quoted at 190, he had to pay
230 for the sum requisite to defray his
expeuses to. the Confederate $tates.
[FOR TUB'CAMDEN CONFEDERATE.]
AcknowledgementReceived
from Misa Eutcly Perry,
President Flat Rock Aid Society, for
"Soldiers Rest," at Camden, 85.80.
The President of "The Rest" most;
grateful acknowledges the above. Do- |
nations from or.r country, friends it) the :
way of Provisions will be very acceptable,
as we have from three to a dozen or ,
more Soldiers at our Rest every night? J
passing on their way to their homes to
the different Districts?and from time to |
time stoppine a few days to recover from
their wounds and diseases.
Donations in money will be thankfully
received in Aid of 'The Soldier's' Rot,"
as we have our nurse to remunerate, besides
other little expenses incident t<? the ,
comfort aud welfare of our brave defen- j
ders. E R. LEE,
Treasurer Soldiers Rest
Siege Matter's?Three Hundred and |
Sixty First Day?The Enemy Upon
James Island?A Barge Attack
Upon Fort Johnson?Its Successful
Repulse, Etc.
Since our lust report events of considerable
interest have taken place within
the circle of hostilities of .which Charleston
is the centre. ,
During Friday night the enemy crossed
over from the upper end of Dixon's
Island to Legaro's Point., and at daylight
on Saturday morning advanced on Rivers'
causeway Here they were met in gallant
style by Lieutenant Depuss, in
I charge of a section of Blake's Light
Battery, 1st S. C. (Regular) Artillery,
then ou picket duty. With his two guns !
he promptly opened a brisk lire, deliver- i
ing fifty two rounds witb good effect,
driving back t portion of the enemy's j
force in some confusion. The enemy
soon raillicd, however, and again udf-uuetd.
Our artilleries stood to their posi
tion nobly, and, as it proved, longer
tban it was prudent, for, being entirely
without, ad* qu ite infantry supports at
baud, tbey were compelled to retire, and
through the desertion of one of their drivers
(originally a deserter ftotn the Yankees,)
they found it impossible to remove
their pieces in time, tbeirassailants being
but forty yards distant, at.d both guns
fell into the bands of the enemy. The
caissons, however, were both saved. The
musketry fire lasted three-quarters of an
hour. Our batteries opened heavily on
the enemy's advance and checked them
at the causeway. It was report<?d Saturday
evening that a gunboat and barges
were iu the Stono, but no father development
took place before nightfall
The enemy's force in this affair isestima
ted to have numbered 1500 under command
of Onioned lleines, of the 103d
New York Jleginn nt. From deserters
afterwards taken, we learn that tlie Yankee
logs in the advance wag 90 killed
and wounded. During the remainder
of Saturday no more fighting took place.
On Saturday uight the enemy's lines
seemed quiet, stretching-from Grimball's
along the causeway. Their force at that
time was believed to be about 3000. General
Taliaferro commands our forces on
James Island.
Simultaneously with this movement
a column of the enemy was reported
advancing up the Stono on John's Island,
in the district commanded by our
General Robertson.
All this, however, seems to have been
mainly designed to divert our attention
from the real point of attack.
THE AS6A17I<T ON FORT JOHNSON.
Early yesterday morning despatches
were received by General Junes, announcing
that the enemy bad made a deter
mined assault upon Fort Johnsons, in
forty-eigbt barges, but wore handsomely
repulsed by the garrison of that post,
under Lieuteneot Colonel Joseph A
Yates 1st S C Artillery. We captur-J
. i? 11 * cfsnd
CQ IU IUC auair 4tu puouum, ??Mof
small arms and 5 barges. .Qnly 11
out of the 48 barges whicb made the attack
were seen to return to Battery
Gregg.
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Try It.
A Gentleman informs us that a few
years ago there was a freshet in North
Carolina which overflowed the wheat
fields in the low lands just about the
time the wheat wis ready for cutting and
destroyed it. One geptiemao who did
not allow his hogs to run on his wheat
had the satisfaction the following August
or September of harvesting ?u exceedingly
heavy crop. Would it not be .a
good idea for those having wheat op low
lands, that has been destroyed by the recent
rains, to try this experiment ? It
miuht be best to plow it in, since it has
not been washed down, as in the instance
cite# above.rrrColumbia Enquirer,
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Who is Grant?
The Richmond Whig answers the |
question thus: ' *
Ulysses S. Grunt was a regimental
quartermaster in the old army, in which
position he was distinguished only for his
love of strong drink. His first appear*
ance in the present war, in any conspicuous
capacity, was at Belmont, where, in *
conjunction with McClernand, he Surprised
a Confederate camp and mig)it :?
have gained a victory if Polk had not < ' 3?j
crossed the river in time to reinforce
Pillow, when the two whipped him bad* _
ignoiniuiously aud disastrously to hid
post, by which be was glad to make bis ''"ij ?
escape. The enterprise, however, exhib1
itcd boldness, and tbe general absence of
this quality at ?he time mnnng the Yait' .a
kee Generals secured for 1-ilit pimtn'oiiob-,
and gave him the command of .some
80,0(^0 or more men gathered in fntntof
Sydney Joiinston. at Bowling Green * '
The winter floods etiab't'd the enemy
to carry the inadequate defences near tbe
moutli9 of the Cumberland and Tennessee
rivers, to land men at pleasure below
Fort Donelson, and to attack it simnlta*
neously by laud und wa'er. Tbe garrison
at thi< place was very small in coniparit
son with the investing force, and the
lines of fortification, in many places,
weak A heroic defeuce was made.?
For three days the enemy was repulsed
with fearful slaughter, his losses in -dead
alone I'eing nearly as large as our wjtolo
garrison. The place was not carried by
assault, but capitulated Very many of
the men remonstrated against t he sum uder,
and few now doubt tlmf, by proper
[liiinng. a.cut, the whole of them could
have cut their way ?>ut without serious
resistance. In these two fights? at Bel.
U'out and Douelsnrt?the great Ulysses
was in one instance defeated positively,
and, iu the next,, gained h victory, of
which none but a Yankee would or could
boast.
Grant's next appearance wg.s at Sihloh.
In the first day's light he was surprised
and shunfcfully beaten; on the second day,
j line)I, who was Grant's superior, and
iiiid arrived with heavy reiutuceiuciit*,
took command, arid to him in due ?lies
credit, such us it is, o?at tacking ft disop.
gani/.ed army, imlf Mm .-ize of his own,
and of failing; signally 'o make it do
more tliun relinquish at leasure a part of
the enormous spoils which it had won
the day before. Here there was no victo.
ry to any one oo the Yankee side, and
certainly none to Grant. < *
After Sluerman's failure at Yicksburg,
Grant, superceded hi in. With unlimited
men and means at his command, he at.
tempted no assault, hut waited patiently
til the nafal (f&cers had succeeded in
running hoth- gun boats and tisupport*
past the Confederate butteries March'
iitg his men rapidly down the West bank
of the river, he .ferried tbeui over and
precipitated them upon Grand Gulf?a
strong position, which, like Donelson,
was incompletely fortified mid' feebly
garrisoned. Grant's success at this point .
was due more to the gun-boats than to
his own skill. And now occurred the
only movement which entitles him to
praise and evinces generalship. With a
celerity uuexampled in the history of
Yankee warfare, he pushed forward his
huge columns, upset IV ruber ton without
tlm lc-d't difficulty, invested Vickburg,
established his conrmutiicatjom- with tire
river both above and below the city, protected
his rear from Johnston by formidable
works, and, after a number of uo>
successful attempts to storm the place, set
down leisurely to reduce it by siege,
1 n. a:J ..o
wiiiuii lie at luugi u ijiu, vxiiidut sci ivup
x testation either in front orTiar.
FIcrc he was indebted more to -the Coiw federate
Government" than to bis ownt?
genious for hia suocvsr. lie showed '
energy by the rapidity of bis Biotrement-s,
aud displayed skill in interposing hijs
army between Peinhcrton and Johnston;
but iT either bis courage or bis skill bad
been extraordinary, be would li^ue crush- ^ 0.
ed his incompetent antagonist iifc^Vicksb'
rg as easily almost, as he had done at.
linker's Creek-?a buttle over whjah the
Yankees made a great deal of noise, but
in reality no battle at all; f?>r we remember
that otic of the ablest Confederate
officers engaged in it laughed at thei dear
of dignifying it with the name of battle.
It was not Grant's generalship sfc moch
as his opponent's utter inexperience io
field fighting, and his own overwhelming
numbers, which enabled him to carry
everything before bitn at ''Champion'a
Hill," like a whirlwind.
His next appearance was at Chaffa*
nooga, where tne discord existing between
the commanding general, on the Confcderaie
side, and his subordinate officers,
but more still, ' the detaching of Hong'
street with a large body of the best troopi
i in the army, just as Grant himself vu
reinforced by many thousands under
Sherman, offered an easy but yet costly
success, >Vh*t there was ma victory.
so gained to entitle its winner to the
extraordinary boo or*', and adnTatioq of
which Grant is now the subject, can be ?
apparent only to those whose triumph#
are rare sod whosa heroes easifytoada,
He has never gained a battle, ra>n open ' >
fight, with a less advantage * than three
or four times a; many mei? as weTt op. ,
, posed to him. He has not prosed bits*
self a great general, but he bas shown
quickness, tenacity, the power to wield
, brute force with effect, and aptness is
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