The New York Herald Newspaper, May 22, 1864, Page 1

- THE NE eee | WHOLE NO. 10,110. —— SHERMAN. (223 down tho ridge. , a the palseaee 0 h-hh Harker found r tasks Strategic Movements of Mis Armies. ceed a aoe BPs ery. A wna) withia the gap was 5 knoll immediate; pucupied by bim and Davis, of Palmer’s corps. GANWRAL BUTTERFIELD, Tw Hoouer's corps the work was not less lively. Geo- eral BotterGeld detached a bri for @ reconnoissance of Buzcart Roost, ia coujunc! with the other corps, and at ao early hour took possession of the north oF nowe of Chattoogata Mountain, moving around unsil ‘he opposition of the became quite aerious. While q@atcning (bis movement ‘@ position @ stort distance ib the rear, an officer, breathless with baste or terror, came dashing up to Buttertield, and exclaimed, Are you aware, sir; that'thé enemy has aa overwhelming force on Sei St et ed moat, wt ae oe air,’ a * ‘sware that 1 havea force om the slope of moun- ~ This brigade, while moving forward, was ordered to the rear by General Thomas, and relieved by. Genera! Carhin’s bri }, in order to permit them to move rigee | oe io Tematned in the position during ‘°GRARY'S FIGRT. At Mill Creek Gap Geary bad made a and badmes with Polk A brisk Sight took place, I.did not see, but which is vy your der General Sickles conversation wi mak{ag the campaign with General eater .and appears to be 8 deeply interested observer of the movement, He attracts thuch attention, and, next to Hooker, he is cou- oeded to be the fest figure in the eid. BOOKER. GENRRAL Hooker takea Rousseau’s place im the affections of the are as demonstrative in their admiration TRE FLANKING OF DALTON. Robe) Stronghold at Buzzard Roost Avoided. THE SEIZURE “OF SNAKE CREEK GAP. Geary’s Fight at Mill Creek Gap. Harker’s Fight on Face Ridge. Rocky that fine warrior was placed at Nashville. seem others who are makiug the campaign with General Hooker, as ARTILLERY DUEL AT RESSACCA. oe a ety eh city, an pai o ure ‘committee room of {he Capito!, of ihe tepec.” Walker has been omnget for five months past 10 making studies for painting the "| THE CASUALTIES, —_| troop’fand'<hintamance and cocinted to Mexico, 1g women were a@e., Se. &e, fMeorctary Stanton to Gemeral Dix. ‘Warmneros, May 21—9:50 P. M. ‘@e Major General Dix:— Despatehes from General Sherman state that our forces Seunddo Rome #004 deal of provisions and seven fine Mexican youn fond of him, and that he was known among them by a bey which meant to distinguish bim as ‘the only man thet ever was aa beautiful as a woman,’? GENERAL SICKLES’ STATEMENT ABOUT GEARY’S FIGRE All thig by way of pareothesis, I was going to give General Rickles’ statement of Geary’s fight. He describes ‘Mill Creck Gap as a passable and winding road over Chationgata Mouataiv, and not a deficesion of the moun- tain, as is generally indicated by the word “gap.” The fight appears to have been somewhat ala Lookout. The 0 ed reached the it; but here found such see works and miachinery. We have secured two good oo oarelenlan Tonce thes they cabo’ faced. poxiene. ‘Wridges and en excellent ford across the Etowah, The, General Geary thinks be could have held the mountain; but his orders were such that be could not consisten! (@re sre now arriving at Kingston with stores, and two @zye would be given to replenish and At up, bring 00 an engagemeot then by reinorcing the | & despatch just received from General Banks, dated at foal ape eet aretha © 2g) og ‘on the a vic ol ‘ over Hooker. @domandria; the $b of May, alates that the “Dam” will | wan about one bundred snd forty, wn BUZZARD ROOST. Tmagiue at,Pu.zard Roost on May 9,a continuation of the labore of the Sts, ‘That day had convinced Sherman ‘that Buzzard Roost Gap could net be taken by direct assault. On either side the mountains, with their per- @e completed to: morrow (May 9) and the gunboats re- @evee. He would then move immediately for the Missis- ‘etyp?. Gen. Candy was at the mouth of Red river on the u dicular pallisades, rendered their ascent «im bie. ete of May, collecting forces to assist Banks, if necen | Nerorc ine vay irom’ mouutale te amr ony. EDWIN M. STANTON, ecretary of War. had built a hg daw, which as rifle and de- fences for their guné,'ae well 68 to confine a creek which “ flowed towards ue to the itmits of a lake of half a doven Mr, W. F. G. Shanks’ Despaten. Acres in extent on the surface; and about twenty feet Nuaz Ressacca, Ga., May 14, 1864, —_ i” pee ates po: beh amr a TA . PREPARATIONS. gap, and the rebels that they could “drown” our @eseral Berman in starting made vast acd mighty | *rmy. Gaal de as Preparations for the campaign. The -patrictie spirit demonstrat: One ates hout ‘which afew months before had thrilled bis armies and ere ad =A carectton masenive nitvected, @aueed them to re-enlist had given him for the work @aeb an army asthe West bad never before seen—an army than that which encircled Corinth to so little When he assumed command, March 18, 1864, found Mterally nothing at the front—few troops and Bo ayppites or provisions, He immediately began the paler saseainiss-vislap. dieuiuis someone: fepots. fio infused into the management of the paliroads..upon which be depended for his trans jon Bis own singular nervous energy. Cars and fm vast numbers were seized, and the @wansportation increased from nisety cars per day to pe nk gree The enemy’ ‘the fring on the 9th was even bricker than before. Johnston moved his otber t) Drigades—King’s and Scribner's—to the assistance of Carlio. Davis and Stan- ley showed themseiyes jn full force, batteries were moved down the gap as far as possible and consistent =with sa‘ety, and artillery belehed forth as if in the deep anger of a general contest. Nothing was effected except the deceiving of the enemy, besause Doth- more was intended. Fourteenth corps lost seventy-five men, killed and wounded, principally in Jebneon’s division. ‘The Fourth ‘corps lost ninety-five men, principaliy ia Wood's and Sten- ley’s divisions. 1 do not know what the loss of ibe Twenty third corps wi COLONEL HAMBRIGHT WOUXDED. Among the wounded in Johnson's division was Colonel two bandred. Bupplies under this new order of | H. A. Hambright, Soventy-uioth Peansyivania. His re to accumulate rapidiy; bus, not coatent with | Suen! ed returned thet oy ee eee eee apricot returning veterans to march Nashville to Chattanooga, and forbade the trans. portation of citizens by military railroads. By the first bf May, on arriving at Chattanooga, he found bimself few moments after Hambright fight by his being wounded. He was str ey this moans master of a surplus of thirty day's rations | 40" iets of ashell, and, it is said, also had two ribs Wer an army double that of the enemy. broken, OPENING THR CAMPAIGN. OTHER LOSSRE. Adjutant Farley, of the Sev: riously wounded at the same . Few or no other officers were wounded in Jobnson’s division. Colonel the Sixty-fourth Ohio, was killed in New- 's jon, and Colovel Buckoer, of an Iilinois regi- ment, mortally wounded. Further to the le’t C.lonel Le- grange, of the cavalry brigade of Colonel kd McCook, was capiured, with about three hundred of his men. The demonstration cost rather heavily, but it was neces- sary. fourth Obio, was se- Gome tight movements were made as early as May 1 @n4 2; Dut they were for the purpose of concentrating Borps, not pushing upon the enemy. We held the princt- al gaps of Taylor’s Ridge, and Johnson's divi- gies, of the Fourteenth corps, bad debouched @rougb Ringgold Gap s month previously, and had {been lying im the eastern mouth, threatening Weone! Hill. Howerd bad been holding Cleveland, and previous to May i there had been some movements of Mebofield’s corps towards Cleveland. But the first real ‘movement of the campaign was accomplished May 3 by (he sudden and seoret travsfer of Gen. McPherson's army Brom the vicinity of Huntsville to Chattanooga, This was @ceomphshed by rail ina few hours, and appears at this Gime to have been made entirely without the koowledge @f the enemy, who, it is still believed, knew nothing of Qe prosence of any portion of the Army of the Tennessee, ‘Whe advance of this army encamped at Chattanooga on the 34 of May. On the samo day General Thomas f person. left for the frovt, and established Readquarters at Ringgold, Howard’s corys moved from Cleveland to Red Clay, encamping there at @andown. General Wood’s division movod as the ad- vance towards Catoosa Springs, and thus formed a junc- Men with Palmer's left, The enemy made no rezistance, @olonel Ed. McCook, commanding the cavairy advance, @peountering only a small outpost of the enemy, and Qeing ove man killed on approaching them. GENERAL SHERMAN AND HIS HEADQUARTERS, Melt ton’ M'VRERSON AT RRBSACCA. We have secn how be made a start He toiled on laboriously but faithfully on the outer and longest line of march and with great secresy. Tho troops a) to have been instructed not to say to what orgapization they belonged,and were as uncommunicative to troops: of other corps as to citizens, At Iaet, on May 9, at carly light, moving from Villangy to the mouth of Snake Cree! Gap, the Army of the Ten! began to rapidly march through the defle. Lieut. Coionel Philips, Ninth IMinois mounted infantry, led the advaneo, aod in the six miles of the gsp e»couatered only a small scouting party, who were going westward through the gap. ‘These be easily routed and drove back to Sugar valley, bot not until he bad had his horse shot under him and received a painful and dangerous wound, Tle Ninth Jlinois pushod for- ward, bowever, and seized the further mouth of the gap. General Dodge, of the Sixteenth corps, hed the advance of MePberson’e army. and, pushin; Fapiaiy forward, the Bap was secured, and Jogan and the Fifteenth cor; marched in and through. it was thus we bad caught t! | enemy sleeping. ‘With positiv: to take point, General Me! duake Creek Gap (han valley cpon Ressacca, without opposition a ra Resaacca, and which are not more than twel i Tam told with imperative, orders, destroy the railroad bridge at that had no sooner defiled through poshed forward through Suess nd yy fen o’ciock had occupied of light bills which over! bundred he artilicrists’ measurement On Wednesday, May 4, General Sherman broke up | Z#Tds from ihe, bridce by the ariileriate. measurement quarters ot Chattanooga and moved to Ringgold, announe- | General Lognn’s otf reinal i fag to the army that ‘‘be intended making the campaign without a tent.” While bis subordinates moved with several tents to headquarters and with come of the com- forts of life, thts siogular and erratic commander, and, am all the Western papers now call him, ‘'wouderful mili- tery genius,” moved without tent or Oy personally. The army was now ail in motion, Hooker's corps moved from Lee and Gordon's mills towards Ringgold ate jaa imwe- diately in roar and not over a mile d) ate 1 tedupe. ton of (hese hills mad ten 0% f. At sundown the troops were basly withdrawn, and marched back ata rapid rate to the southern month of the gap, and, amidst a pitiless storm and cold and drench- ing rain, were evgaged all night in fortirying the gap. WHAT WAS DONE AFTER 88 LEFT, 1 have said that the troops were all withdrawn, 1 should hay Tor & compavy of skirmishets, who re- matocd that nig wit ‘a fow hundred yards of the at Rossa railroad brid nd the next day at noon re- end bastly retraced his steps. McPherson encamped at | turned to camp. Private James McCabe, of the Ninth Mae and Gerdony, Sims nd om the ‘battle ground of | iovad tothe tit ead got upos the line ‘te al Gickamavgs, Palmer les at Ringgold, ready to plunge | moved north fo Tihton, and. thete destroyed the ‘apo telegraph -vire, office and inatrouments, and returned to camp next day, ‘TAO ENEMY MARE A RECONN IRSANCH, McPherson lay quietly at Snake Creek Gap on May 10, The my, having discovered his movement, pushed rman, it appears, decided promptly, on learn occupation of Spake Creek Gap by Eabinereen, tort the whole army, with the exception of How: by way Of that point to the rear of the enemy. MOVEMENTS. Orders were given to Howard to relieve the t1 or the other corps lying at the mouth ot Buzzard Roost Gap, doring Be night of the 10th; but for some reason or an. other they were countermanded, It wa: Cee yf con: ceded that they could not be safely withdrawn to day. hight, aud consequently the demonstration at Bi Roost avd the Inactivity at Snake Cay | contin through the 11th. During the olght of that day the Fourth corps relieved the troops of the Fourteenth, During the same day (2itb) Hovker’s march to the Gap from the vicinity ‘rickman, Ob the 12th the Fourteenth and Twenty-third corps moved from Tuonel Hi} and vicinity to Spake Creek a vear of (be long column net felting Into camp until mide Logan moved out of the Gap to Sugar valley, and ified that point of convergence of three important roads Generals Sherman and Thomas established their @rough the gap. ich (once called Ringgold Gap) now “goes by the name of Hooker's Gap, in commemoration @f the bloody events of November 27. The Fourth (@rpe remained still in camp a Catoosa, with Schofield Sow closed up on its left, and Stoneman, with his ifveon @housand cavalry from Kentucky, moving towards Wey. TER EROPEING OF TAYLOR'S RIDGE By the army was effected on the morning of the 7th, com. @encing at an early hour. Hooker's column of Thomas’ Q@rmy moved through Hickajack and Gordon’s gaps upon Ericken Post office. General Geary, of the same corps, Pellowed Butterfield through Gordon’s Gap, and camped fo bisright, Palmer’sand Howard's corps appeared at @annell Hill and drove the enemy to Buzzard Roost, with- ut the loss Of aman, It had been understood that the qmemy had made every preparation to destroy the tun- mel, Dub failed to do so, and Ina few hours after the ar- stval of the troops the trains were running through to Lne sévance ine of the army, Howard's column had moved from Catoosa Springs, east of Taylor's Ridge, and i on ihe night of the th lay at tne foot of Mocky Face Ridge, with one division, stauiey’, hand te es nant Anse id, ii ing sharply op the valley of Buzzard Roost Gap, and army now concentrated, a movement was, Sraveclng wi Davi’ division of Palner's corps; ana | oTdered stan, ceriy hour cn Rreehcee,, The moraiag ve brigade; Harker’s on top of Rocky Face Ridge, Gobo. | rebels could be di eerd ia the direction of Res- Gold's lay around the east side and north point of Roeky | {hive ty wed trident they were moving off with every. Free Ridge. MePherson’s was auili somownes Dehind, and | Morgan’ i Shire Givision_ was ordered to moyp from was siretched from Lee & Gordon's mille to Villasow, | Sager valtey at sixo’olock; but Kilpatrick’s ca had the edvance Baving pasved through Ship's Gap of Taylor's | Dee delayed Bed is wan pasatng Seger valley Widge. Thes the grand army was located on the night MATT. cconnerNRANON OF SUEEARD Room, Barly on the morning of the 6th a reconnoissance of Baszard Roost from several different points was ordered; and Schofield moved cautiously down the eastern side @ wo mountain, During the night of the Tih Pavien's ayy firate fe Fopth cone ~ ~~ W YORK HERALD. YORK, SUNDAY, MAY 22, 1864. ———=3 PRICE FOUR CEN Grom reed, a couple of miles fren Kilpatrich | skirmieting and shelting tho wooded slopes and crost of me casDALee, him in the shoulder, and, takiog & diagonal direction, Yodo 40 ths front front and suddenly come urcn Malt a dozen | Buasard Roost, below, give aiatas poriect as pornbie, of the casuals | toggedt wear the spine. 18a CONTIN, tm Goary’s affair of Sunday :— 4 i rt ne ese and fred: Ae took effect tn bis typ. Lite hores | The WOR On Tuceday was resumed with pretty brisk. ‘miltad, We have took sully five hundred prsoners. Qurown turned and ran to the rear, when the ral dismounted sbirm: » whieh wan continued all along the line, our Captain H.C. Bartlett, 334 New Jersey; Licutowans | captured are very few. and wae sent to the rear io an eanbulance. At the lass | Batteries all the timo shelling the evemy on tho bit.’ Ag | Joseph L, Miller, 39d New Jersey: Lioutcnanl Grant, 20th Many of the troops belonging to tbe regiments engaged accounts J bad of bim he was at his quarters, with mopes | some ferce was massing on tho f Sehonold' nk, | Ohio, M. M. Knowlton, Franklin Potter, Joba Koopier, 7m ek The; Of Dis recovery. This cocurrence took place eight | with the evideus purpose of attacking him hia | Sergeant Jobo Gray, Samuel Wooldridge, Corporal George | 12 Wbis fight have never beca tn action before, y O'clock A. M. beta El i ™ eee it Seoka oe op his Mime of battle erat seenee J Beare, = —_, ree ant re 7. | stood up to their work. Soon after this affair 1. re reached cross eeatern slope of the yat the @ reono, Christian Remley, Curtis W. Tauty Ht Con. saanel Gi » ‘i voesae A dinection Goard initrias you Inetit'a theo iaites | ferther demenstretion. Ita thought that the enctay nave | nell loo, Gharies Oaborc, Martin smith, Toujas if, | _ ©0Ne! Coulter, of the Eleventh Pennsylvania. reserves to Calhoun ferry; and the citizens will tel! you ‘the | fallen back to-day, with the purpose of attasking MePher- | Finney, Charles M. Nims, Amos Long, Jobo A. Rickles, | 48 shot Ip the sitiymish line last wight aud quite severely road from Tilton to Calhous ferry was ‘only last } 200, WhO passed through Spake Gap and js now beyond | Jacob Hartz, Wm. Kephardt. wounded folke”—that is, ** the rebels.” At this | the Ressacca, Wo aro following them up, and tbey wil! Wounded. vee betwoen two fires if she heavy rain last ‘week by ‘our ; | find poe nabure moved to the right at double quick, fol alves between te . Colonel Wm. T. Fitch, 29th Obie; Lieutenant Colone’ Morgan 1, Smith Heanguanseas, Firta Copes, Fdward Hayes, 20th Ohjo, Major James Fitzpatrick, 28th In Tue Freco, May 20~7:00 P. M. . Pennsylvania; Adjutant James 1. Storer, 20th Ohio (to0r- nab be in lige et a4 Fe me ree ee a tally); Goptala Eat Fecren, toa Haw a fe Al bao bees quiet to-day. Our skirmishers have not Toft of the road, and thus the Fifteenth corps was HOOKER’S COLUMN. Baat Georgo W. Dice, 21h Ohio: Colonel P. Hi, Jones, } *F97 on ench other, crdacea toabalt.’ ‘The cider.eorpe weet la on ihe leis, r 194th New York; Captain Jamea R. Sanford, Thirty-third | Yne fight of last evening, iu which the hoavy arsillery ea ‘with the exception of Dodge, who moved to Calhoun ferry. New Jersey; Lientonant M. A. Baldwin, 119(u New York; Mr. E. D. Wenifail’s Despateh. Lieutenant Sydu Smith, 334 No distinguished themselves, and the accompanying order of Ry cet a gy al ea ge Sainsitidzaa Heexea teaenaee oars} a4 fweagegh'h' Pemyleaniar General Meade, {rom lack of matter of more stirring ia Wear ‘the rong soade there wee sesembled st noon Fane Weer’s Beene, Om, WeD. fy. /10, Meee ton Uathee Mette Eee Riceats Aaron. | Jerpet, have furnished the principal: staple far GaemmNeOe Phim A Thomas, Dis broad shoulders beut as if, ike Wo the disposition of Sherman's forces for the advance | Jong W, Brooks, William Calling Smith, Richard | 224 eulegium, Atlas, he would bear the werld upon them—he always | 09 Dalton, the Twenticth army corps, Major General | Havens, John smith, James Dalsel, Jf. Wright, Our logs in this brief but brilliant action, f ama glad to giveey you tbe idea of great power ana awrenebs Sev Hooker, constitutes the right of the Army of the Cumber- - Fiera Mead 9 Prone bos mh anes ny Jobo | ay, has dwindled down to baif the number I gave it, ~ aa pee ame is cotplentnn and vest | nd, Five days? marching, during which time wero bas | urns, Oscar i Spraguo, Isao Rogers, J.Growuer, JH, | 4 d®octer coming to-day within our lines gives the en~ to the man Ihave met among | deem considerable ekirmishing and one quite brisk en- } Guyterwill, ‘Shas Jobn Riker and James Goines, | emy’s foes as double that of ours. Me represents the ty-seventh Pornsytvania. Jobo Winter, Frederick Waltz, Henry Frnt, Geo. Kibler and Hormaun Zelses, One Hundred and Nincteenth New York. other lesser lights. A litle later $ gagement with tho enemy, has brought the corps into 7 ULE ARD ROORT BY ACCATED. ‘position along the base of Chattoogata Mountain, the great oe verty at balf-passtwo came an aid of General | natural earthwork for the defence ¢f Dalton. Looker's wi eoomy as very much chagrined at (heir failure to tore our right. Me. J.C, Fitepatrick's Despatem. ‘the had avaeneted | jet Jone Palner’ i Fogene Marsh, Michael McDonald, Charles Sebreder, = Roost dap and Dalfon, aud that be now occupied | a ee en ant ee anne teat oath: | PBIND Range and Jobo. smi. fi Nratw Ansty Corrs, May 200A. M. Doth. The evaci morning of the efor reek Gap, tho next gate- One Hundred and Pifty-fourth New York, The Batteries on the right of our line opened an enfiiad- 12th, | The word was given to nee to find out, and in | way sduthward from Duazard. 1 have followed the floge | | James Copeland, A. H. Wellman, Petor Nicholt, Frank- | tog geo npon the rebels 98 soon ae tho fog which accom- Wbalng 0 Rersacea, Nt (Bg Fifteenth corps 24-1 of the corps on its march into position, and I seud you at | Tyivis jadigon, Inrael ‘Ricbards, Ws Deapton, (eo. Wit: | PaBied tho showor of rain ratsed aud permitted a view of skirmishing Immediately ensued, the enemy fall. | B® Aret avaitable opportunity a transcript of my journal. | jiams, Thos Reagan, Benj. Lee, b. J. Jones, C. P. Ved- |’ thelr position, A rebel battery further to the left opened ing dack rapidly until they reached the rango of bills BUTTERYIELD AND WIL11AKs MOVE TO 4 SEW CAMP. dor, Jas, W. Randolph, C. W. Hall, Joho M. Irvin, Jobo | on oup battery and a sort of triangular duel was the con- Sepcrit han oats Bere the corps was brought to & | Butterfleld’s (Third) division broko up camp in Lookout | JekBOM) Be: MOOT. Oe teanin, sequence, our battery shelling tho rebels and the rebel seeuy aap opted wh arilory, evidently ‘Biege pieces, | Valley on Wednesday, the 4th inst,, and moved across | John Erh,Geo. Moore, John Clements, Geo, Munyon, } battery shelling our’s, Only a fow rounds were fired, and a brisk kept up. it by haMf-past three the | the point of tho grand old mountain, where many of the | Jas. Garyio, Martin Shellon, Embrick Muller, frodk. 3 nie cnemy had been driven off, and our tvopa were again ‘ . Wolfe, Heaty Prince, James MoNuity, Win. Lemon, | 2°Wever, a8 darkness soon approached and precluded a advancing. . troops fought In November last, to Leo and Gordon's Sayne Colwel } Benj, D.’ Van Dever, Hugh Kennedy, Ste: view of the situation, milla, On8 Of the historical potote im the Chickamauga phen Breoers, Geo, Isorling, Joba YicKernon, Cave Folko- cy battle Held... They were feilowed on the 5th by Williams’ wi it passes through the bills overlooking Ressacca. =) bim and forward with bim to the t > fea. . Thirty. third New Je Abram Harries, Joseph R. Sanford ois Dease, Jas. Cox, Wm. Marray; Joba J, Mullen, Thos. Hardman, Geo. Conidin, Frapk MoCartland, John Boyd, Lows Steinhope, James McLongblio, Thos, ( bamberlin, Geo. Bain, Mahlon Richarda, James Murphy, Joseph Brower, John McCartle, Jacob Cook, Jncod Timming. Ab ambulance train from the Ninth corps, which bad ken a joad of wounded to Fredericksburg, in the moru- ‘was on ite return and was fred upon by the rebels when they made their charge on the turnpike, Dootors Bliss, Whelan and Spragne were in charge, and narrowly escaped injury from the shower of builets which whistled @round ihe train. The ambulance in which they were ‘of the (First) division over tbe same route. On the 6th General y grees wyaliGeation tadhnae Butterfield moved past Pea Vine church and Rock Spring been unwittingly accompan: our } to Pleasant Grove, at the foot of Taylor’s Ridge, three and a half miles from itinggold. Williams followed, and om the vn ag ge eae the bil! Yheeebet Nice ake fellow who oxpomed Ritecand, &°PPS | night of the 6un tho twodivisione cucamped togetber. Gen. ww who exposed himself. ‘USED RERRZAT WORAB OONFOU: Hooker, Accompanied by a single steff officer and a few Hundred and Vhirly-fourth New York. riding was perforated with two bullets, Several of the ‘General D, Clari . McKinney, I . F 2 oe ‘ras in Tull view. We ooma | orderiies, rode swiftly into the camy at Pleasant Grove. whineeck Soon’ Beek Peter ace ‘David iberk, | horses were hit, but otherwise tho train and its attend- the movements Sey! kh, ‘What the subject of bis consultation with General Butter. bate Na — — ro ae ee = anty escaped unharmed. troops. with le eleey, Jobn i. Holmes, Hurbank jenzoe A. . ‘and went inio position, in's longline | ela might bel know no}, bot the grana Blan bad evi. | cher, Thomas Moder, Pi ; Acrebdl corporal, who was, wounded and to) the suo: dently been somewhat changed, for early next morning Batterfeld’s diviston retraced ite atops to Rock Spring, or {with buKe } Leey’s tanyard, whoro it weot into camp on the lett of pov nd. to all apooaranecs | Geary’s, Which bad come down from Lookout valley the ph aghy Bed bg ye a bgp yeaa to sich ket day before, Bovh divisions now faced south, Williams?’ s00n as irass coul guns in position an was still at Pleasant Grove. On the morning of the 7(b open 4} them. At last he got up—Stollbrand, b; the Gorman artilleries of Logan's staf urging him’for, | Butterfield moved through’ Gordon's Gap, in Taylor's ward and directing bim toto position. At last the four | Ridge, to this place, Geary following actors, Taylor's then Diack monsters were ip position. eT ‘opened, and im- | moving to the right, in front of Dug Cap, tn Rocky Faced Ridge. Williams’ moved throngh Taylor's Ridge, by mediately stirred that proved decidedly vacomfortable. Nickajack Gap, to Wickum's Poet office. Kilpstrick’s b cavalry divieion marched ivjadvance of Williams? throu; tea erclecticr 1 Nickajack, past Butterficld at this point to Gen. Geary’s expected mht | right. This was the position Saturday nigot, the 7b. on0 of the shots wbich skipped along the top of the hill RECONNOSBSANCH TO PUAZAUD ROOST. . From the{rebel en nenaes Sunday morning Gen. Hocker ordered a recoun 0 fara killed, 8; privates, } ceeding charge of our mon captured, said that the enemy were aware of the cheracter of the train, but that they fired into it to halt it and so detain a forage and supply train which they supposed to be in the rear, There is nothing new, important or startling to-day. It 1s quiet on the front of our Jing, and from the stillness IT conclude the condition of affaira is the same elsewhere. Our corps now occupies a pogition in advance of two jines of works held by the enemy a few days since, 60 that our progress, if slow, is at least sure and steady, which we could Jook with ease. A large obmber commissione or plainly 46. Total wounded—Commissioned officers, 12; entisted men, 245, Tho ist is not complete, owing to reports not having come in at time this despatch is soot. 1b comprises, however, the logses iv iauterp regiments. qe GRANT! No Fighting on Fri- Mr. 8, Cadwaltader’s Despatch NeAR Sporrsyivanta, May 20—8 P.M. No movements of any importance have taken place to- day, ans, except occasional picket firing on the right, both armies have contented themselves with maintain- : i i E 4 fot erect vaoge ot tbe Mis ent ove amar tetoeer [card cenneae chats thenienen ceetie aka da Last. ata yates pent t we shall speedily assume the A fell near | by Gen, Butterficid to discover the enemy's position aud 1@ indications are that we sball sp soa and at thence Wares ieapeaatalS te aan Fed OLE | strength in that gap. Rebel pickote wore met abont a mite vy offensive, and that before this reaches you the din an@ After @ white watching thie duel began to be interesting; | from the Roost and driven ‘n to the maia body of troops, ehovk of battie will make the forests echo again, We are bes wialaenmneed the task 1 suddenly sound myeat yrbo.wore found, as-espenied; etronpiy, posted, amet 4, | Delisted to be in excelent condition and wi earth rows 088" mn ‘ere woune . joboson’s ivi 2 9 mich bad” ploughed through’ the” ground | fourteenth sriuy ‘carpe’ were fouod ia postion oo ne | THO Losses in Thursday’s | » weer's tavoravle woaner vee #: Hiph pedrre ong near me. The force of bature, or curiesity, you } left and before Buzaard Roost, and the reconpolssan: bo attained. There bas been but little rai wo days, May choose, could no further go; and, totally 1. | was pushed no further during the morning. Later ta the Battle. and the ro @ improving rapidly. je ia a Mat Aoi) ase Reneral Becket, seemapanied: by. Oroeeal Saaiel Tyler's division and Kitching’s brigade of heavy artil one of whom ‘3 to swear test Piscaphedhind eng she tao : died jery bebaved so gallantly, in repelling ihe mapetuoug al ready lwas man that jay on the bill that day. THE BNSUY SILRNCKD—OUR PORITION Tat NGRT. Other batteries were scon Dryeght, upon the right and | left of De Grass, and by six o'clock the enemy had been | silenced. The troops moved forward into the valley, and bere sharply engaged the enemy in skirmishing until a in the meantime, on the Nalton and Ressacca road, tho Foarteenta corps met witb ap equally determined re- sistance, but pushed forward and occupied the hills, a8 | Six “miles below uzzard Roost le Mill Creek Gap, in had dove. The army thus rested that night, inthe | Chattoogata Mouptain, about two and a bef miles from form of agreat V, the angle of which was uear = Daltov. At the same time Butterfield made » demonstra. valley, and the two points resting right and lolt of | tion on Buzzard Roost Geary was ordored to attempt the Ressacca, The enemy bad succeeded in placing himself } yp of this gap, aod thus tank Dalton, One of Geary’s egain in our froat. bela jes (Colonel ireland’s) had beon detached to 81 port Kil a joven, og flank of poe column, still further to the right, and consequently two THE LEFT WING. for the execution of the of Toa which we 6 Despatch. “MIL, CRRER CaP)? is not exactly a gap, but a depression su the ridge, which Tonwa, Hitt, May 11, 1864, is practicable for arond. Standing at Halls st at the Having accompanied the leit wing of the army, foot of the ridge, —-. looking L,? big the agen - foliage, the mouniain top appears alusost jnaccessible, and comprising the Fourth aod Twenty-third army corps, | tne windiig road along its sivo is hardly traceable. The Igive @ short sketch of their movements, having re. position was more formidable than Lookout Mountato. served a more detailed account for future publication, COLONEL CASDIN'R, MOTE. Athaif past three Sunday atternoop Colonel Candie’s My previous despatches brought this down tothe night | . iio, ine Thirty third New Jersey, Oce Hundred and of the 7th, when we bivouacked in the valley between | phirtyourth New York, and Tweuty ninth Obio in the Tunnel Hill ond Rocky Face Ridge, about two miles from | advance, moved up the slope of the mountain under cover Tanne! Bill and four from Daiten. The enemy had falien back tothe strong natural protection of the steep, pre- cipitous rapge of bills called Rocky Ridge and Buzzard of afire from Koapp’s Penneylvadia Battery. After a sbort distance the direction of the march was changed, Roost, The ridge is about five buvdred feet high, the rocks in places rising as perpendicular as s wall toa and the line formed diagonally up the mountain, the right resting far up the height, facing in conformity height of over tweuty feet. wCZZARD ROOST with the course of the road.” !t was the \ sveeping game’’ of Lookout over again. The eneiny were steadily is ® conical sloped bil!, rising about eight bundred feet above the ievel of the plain, It is sepa driven, though they showed a heavy force aaa kept up® galling’fire until Geary’s brave fellows vearly reached the rated from the ridge by ® gorge, through which the railway runs. This gorge was flooded to a crest of the ridge. Thongb the diflicuity of this march was terrible up the steep mountain side, over the loose stones, through the tangling underbrosh, the foliage offering but scanty protection from the broiling sun, the men overcame jt, aud cheered lusty they saw success before them. But they were met at depth of eighteen feet, Dy damming a stream that flows through. Agaiuet this Gibraltar the army now commenced operations, the Twenty-third corps forming the extreme left, the Fourth connecting with them, then the Fourteenth and Twentieth corps extend.ng along its western side and occupying all the favorable positions the top by an abrupt clit or palisade, varying m bight from six to fifteen feet, with fisauras at interval, practi« that the treacherous nature of the country offered them. sk RMISEING. the fleetest } brigade was ordered up, with ordors for the two bri to push the enemy with considerable vigor. By nightfall enough had been accomplisbod to show that thé enemy wore not disposed to give up tre gap without a hard fgbb, and the troops were withdiawo without loss. It was found that tho rebels bad dammed Mill crock, which flows through the gap, and the artificial lake thus formed was an almost impassable barrier 10 an aseault on the position in front GRARY ATTRMPTS WIL CRERK GAP. tack of a porticn of Ewell’s corpeon our extreme right, that General Meade caused the following specia! order to be read to the truops of the army :— Heanqvanters, Any or 7am Potomac, May 20-8 A. M. ‘The Major General commanding desires to express hig watisfaction with the goodconduct of ‘Tyler's division and Kitching’s brigade of heavy artillery in the affair of yesterday evening. The gallant manuer in whieh these commands, the greater portion being for the first time ander fire, met and checked the persistent attack of @ corps of the enemy, led by ove of his ablest generals, justifles the Commanding General in this special com. mendation of troops who henceforward will be relied upon, a8 were the tried veterans of the Second and Fifth corps, at the same time engaged. By command of Aajor General MEADE. Wussame, A. A. G. Straggiers and cowards are being taken ! hand and summarily shot. Several instances of deserting colors im the presence of tne enemy are yet to act upon. One exe- cutlop occurred this morning. Skulxers will goon be taught that it is more dangerous to bide in the rear thaa to face the foe in open battle. There is a quiet determt- Nat‘on among commanding officers to make such exam- ples as will deter stragyiing oud deserting in future. GALLANTRY OF THE HEAVY ARTILLERY. Complimentary Order of General Meade. REPORTS OF REBEL PRISONERS. Our Whole Army on the Move. Mr. D. P. Cont A GREAT BATTLE EXPECTED, &e., &0., &e. Mr. L. A. Hendrick’s Despatches, Hesvquanrens, Fete Aumy Corrs, In 18m Frevo, May 19—11 P. M. ‘The musketry and cancovading heard on our right as 1 cloned my last despatch proved to be tho opening of a brief but severe engagement. | have just gathered the Jeading particulars and tho result, which was a complete victory on our side against a much groater force of the enemy, refects the bighest credit on our heavy artillery regiments that were engaged, aud who so firmly and gallantly met and repelled the attacking foe, A change made {fo (he disposition of our troope last night left several heavy artil/cry regiments this morniag on the extremo right of our line, Those regiments com- prised the First Massachusetts, Colonel Tannott Fifteenth New York, Colonel Ackerman; Second New York, Colonel Palmer; Sixth New York, Lieutenant Nean Srortsyivaxra, May 218 A.M. Our troops were moving aii night to new positions, This mornmg genera! headquarters are broken up, aud nearly the whole army in motion. Precisely where oue next baiting place will be, or where Gouoral Loo will next give battle, or whether ho will do so at all In this vicinity or not, time alone can determine. The general expecta tion imthat we shall have hard Sghting immediately. “s, Extravagant rumors are afloat io parts of the army that Lee bas cut oar communications, and occn- ploa Fredericksburg with infantry, They may possibly reach the North in some manner, They are wholly tre cal ome of them for men abreast, others bare! wiae enough (or one. Jess brave men than Geary’ would have given up the attemps ju despair of ever taining the crest over this natural broastwork in the of a destructive fre, But five distinct charges made by these heroes of the Fig! above the Clouds, and each timo the crest was gained. Officers and men strug: gied up one by ope, aud grappled with the enemy on the brink baud to band, and many of thew were hurled over nerals Grant aud Meade’s plans are working ad- mirably. 1 can only reiterate former assertions, that the work goes bravely and successfully om, and will contiaue to do 80, despite all croakers. The Washington Despaten. the cliff, Wounded "mon would topple cver the praci- There was some smart skirmishing on the afternoon | co, wug wounded. men would” Toll for, yards | Col0Mél Travis, and a battalion of the Fourth New York, Wasmnatom, May 21, 1804. Of the 7b, Detween Harker’s brigade of Newton's dj | down tho bill, displacing rocks, whieh, im turo, Druised | UNder command of Major Arthur—ihe whole under A despatch from the Hendquarters of the Army of the other toilers up the steep ascent, Yet they gained the plateau every time, and would bnve held it but for an obstacle which at the commencement of the ascout thay would have counted as naught. It wasn ling of fort. fications on @ rise of ground facing the cliff The m could not form for a charge on these breasiworks they Jumped off the cliff, or got down as best they could, only to repeat the charge. Sorgeaut Hamilton, of the Thirty-tuird New Jorsey, with eleven men, remained on t more than twenty minutes, fighting valorousiy, ually was forced to lon his proud position. He escaped unhurt by jumping off tho cl ‘a batw fa the line of palisades onabled the enemy to pour in a flunk fire {rom tho top, aud they improved it. usod command of Colonel Kitchings. Although organizing as heavy artillery, these regiments, it will be understood, are doing service as infantry. Two battalions of the Sixth New York and a battalion of the Fiftoenth New York were deployed as skirmishing. There was slight skirmishing all day, the opposing pickets not being as friendly by any means as on other Portions of our live. At four P, M, the enemy mode ® quick and sudden dash in force to turn the right. Gur men fell back across vision, Fourth corps, and the enemy, in which our brave fellows succeeded iu gaining the eastern crest of the bill The One Hundred and Twenty-Ofth Ohio lost in killed and wounded about twenty mes, as they were the front skirmisbing line. CENERAL HARKER'S ARTILLERY MOVEMENT. Having gained a footing, General Harker con- ceived and executed the bold design of dragging two pieces of artillery up the bill, The pioneers cleared the way a little before them, and then our brave Potomac, dated to-day, say1:— Nothing of importance occurrod yesterda; : The wounded from tho fight of Thursday afternoon were sent to Fredericksburg during the day. The less was much heavier than at first supposed, abont eleven hundred—over one hundred of whom were seut to Wasington, A large number of wounded rebels were brought into our hospitals and cared for, some of whom afterwards died fel'éwh clinging fo the rocks op oue band and hauling the | exploriye fuse bullets, and fought desperately, as they | 2 OPED flold into tho edge of some pine woods The rebel loss is ectimated at twelve hundred and fifty ropes with the other, succeeded in reag bing. the crest, j kuew the importance of holding the gap, They used nc | and there made a stand, Here followed a terrific | jp Killed and wounded, besides about four huadred and generals themeclves cheering on the men, end bivouacking | orders to‘ take the gap i Geo. Geary witn | Were made to drive our boys further back; but against | sixty citizens of Fredericksburg have been arrested por drew bis troops at half past cight in the evening, unter Tor the nigbt on the top of the hill, cover of & he vy firefrom Knayp’s battery. Toe enemy A FINE MOVEMENT—GENERAL JUDAR’S OPERATIONS. About ten o’clock next morning, the charging colamns our men stood firmiy, and by the and will be sent to Washington to-day, to be held ag coolness and steadiness of their fre resisted their fur. hostages for iho sixty of our wounded men taken by them irmish! did not pursue, but breathterst menced to throw 1 took place along the slopes and Magia ot tbs thi Seat breastworks of logs and stoni Fincns the face of the | ther advance each time, At length it was thought best | and conveyed to Richmond, Fi ral Schofield ordered the Twenty-third corps to wheel | mountain, be'ow ~ Pvisa Tue ¢ ” of tle | to make a charge on our side, and the result was driving Rebel prisoners cantivus to be brought in; about round and move iP ne of battie the a waien aged = — no Walley last aight, where | (he enemy back acroes this open field. Our men took } twenty.dve have boon captured last evening. They give mov ponition behind @ rail fence, and kept the enemy cow- yletely at bay. encomiums on the “damn glowing accounts of the rebel o mumis*ariat, and say that though they uttered them hardly above bre: General Lee ieels certain of final vietory. seems eer res NIPURNGON AT RRSBACCA. Jost before dark some batteries were placed ia position f= oh Mieae cf tha SOL Suscey Hise of shoes eet tepurta. that, MaPbernoete. coluive pmaced | i the reae of our columa, and did splendid service in the The Care of the Wounded. thrown out in front which wero actively ‘ough Sake Creek Gap, eeven miles below Mili Creek, | showers of shell and sbrapnel sent into the enomy’s Wasmixotos, May 20, 1864, Segahh mitecon pretty COUGHS PUNTERUR TORE: Tan sulvcad’ cut a laran Suiilig: eb, osha oked, and | ranks. The enomy's position was such that be could | Jony F. fence, fey. Gocoral State Agent of Now Yo Siv—Having just returned from Fredericksburg, where I have been for ten days past, | take pleasure fp answer- jog your inquiries relative to tho condition ef the wounded. Pirst, as Lo numbers, Dr. McParlan, Medical Director of the Army of the Potomac, assured me two days since taat nineteen thousand would cover all the wounded since the movement of the army. From Dr. Dalton, Medical Director at Fredorieksbarg, [ learn that at no time have the wounded n that city exceeded six thou. not use artillery against us. Some rebel sharpehooters concealed thomselyes in and around some old negro buts in the vicinity, but wore soon driven out, Lieutonavt Colonel Travis took a rife from @ private and ended the career of ono of them, a species of rife practice success. (wily imitated by Captaim Hall, of the samo regiment. Failing to turn the right, an effort was mado to get in on the ieft flank; but thi attempt as signally failed. Night found our forces holding the ground (bey occupied {p the morning. They hold the position still. dack wear two miles along the vailey jato thelr works. ig Cox’s division caplured some rife pits in their Geperal Judab during the evening prepared to assault the enemy's woxks. This movement was contingent uy the co . ition of General "s Sto The crest of hill, but as bis advance was by formidable works and a flerce he could barcly hold his own, The ridgo rose, cliff over cliff, as it re. ceded; therefore General Harker’s advance was a con- tinuation of assaults. Genoral General Juaah not to advance, for even if be took the y of rifle pie in bis (rent Be could not hotd hem, as moving down tho ridge past Geary’s poritior ward Snabe Creek Gap, bat they are too Jate vice to the confederacy im that lcoalito- To-day Generel butterfold sent in Ross’ brigade on the right of the entrance to Buzzard Roost. They advanced up the mountain with little logs of resistance, and reached ® point within one hundred yardsof a rebel rest with stacked arma, woen the te wounded fp fair, which would havo been a most brilliant thing If Goneral Butterfield's movements pad gould not paeas right flank. £0 the down | not been arrested. Adout seven o’olock General GriMo’s aud General | sand, and most of the tine but little over five thousand, be Ty aad oe Te, 4a of bememaen ir pth Crawford's divisions of this corps were given positions to | Of course these numbers are largo, but far legs than rex $8 KEE, OFPOSTTION TO OUR spvamcm HAADeARTERS, SECOND ouare) Divisiox, aid in ropelling the attacks of the enemy, but had no oo. | Pons tote cnsoee tte, woundesy as, uo time have the Harker's ition on 1 1. ‘The SD emame Ansar Conre casion to fire a gun. wants of the wounded been more promptly met by met Sone hein ihe i Peay persteser nd: division ay 0, i804, inan. | Some of the First, Fourth and Bighth Maryland regs eerament ae ee N08. df tnare Bs ae ith fearful ppreciation of the condoct of tho | ments, just returaing from furlough, got into a portion of ion oa of “guppies, as thore undoubtedly bas, 1b havo ine and Sere nerd one eat Ls ne ‘Aeeault on tng My the Sght, They were coming up the ae pa arisen more trom, wats oe) kuowledge how to — re tain Chamberlain and Iicutenant eoens pt to take the con” road, and when called on rendered most willing ac: om a 0 officers than from A fame wounded; Boyle, righty fourth innens, orn division, by Gale canta ef it tet aig effcieat sorvice. a. paieate wes aon Joa an Wetton oo asy n- ‘wounded; Colonel Buckaer, of yg ied tho almost impregnable position of the enemy, sustain: The object of the attack was of course to get possess: among the first of those by civtlians—aod from an hour ginny sh iy wounded: Lieut, Gol, Bullet, | its proud prestige. You have a obect of criokaburg road, acd out off our communica: | after the entry of the wounded they havo not wanted for ira tly. As the men were re- | groat bearing upon tbe euccess of the present movo- | of the Fred: Ae ail necessaries and lvxurios. Each day all the men have Ae to zeeee Bill, thence to Daltoa, I ‘Rot been mente, 1; witlioal tion tm that direction, Dealdee capturtog our supply, har had coffea, , Wa, farina, milk punch several ascertain their names. hoor will, olay, thetr_eomman dosper: eolld Be sreyararaacrearttrynind ant many | eric cutie beter camp | aay ays ea Prem a mens, em ge Se dee zt ’ Teaneseeo, Meesuine Geoeral Wood's division bed ad- | minas cf al! hat the sok of thle division wil sr bere: | the entire of Kweli’ corpe was engaged in thle attack. ‘4 bm ny ie Sremorty oe oun tn the centre as far as the steep walk would allow | toforo.g individualize pe Ee, Our lessee are catimated at about » thousand. The through the long service of inva Hl, Fuuor, Assiatant adjetans General wounded are now belng talken to Ube Fila corps hospitals. a ane eee no suubae’” Few, avitess ‘118 TROOPS ENGAGKD, ‘Among the wounded is Colonel Travis, He was hit by ® Oy hr EM 5d perform the aetual labor The regiments engaged the ‘Minje ball jn the grein, The ball frat passed through « were:—' "i York, Colonel J. I. Loughiie; 18th New Gasol PN, Sones: 134uh New York,’ Ldeutewesy Onens ‘78d Penusyivania, i Gen. fA, H. Jackson, wax! jajor Hope! A. Reid, Reoseriranie Lege) & Flynn: 61," hecessary for this purpose, and A liberal detail from the bag of tobacco, and this doubtless saved his life, Major | army De been mado, In addition to the abundant Chamberlain, of tho Fifteenth New York, was frst re- ported killed, He is only wounded in the arm—» pamful but not dangeroas wound, Lieatenant FA R. Plath of the ND May Katha WAGLIAN WORAAS > Pell vires doing alt ia their power.