The New York Herald Newspaper, May 30, 1864, Page 1

} WHOLE NO. 10218. . GRANT! The Mareh of the Army ef the Petomac. ‘wounded, ‘Lieutenant Wheeler and bis battalion, the Firat Michi - gan cavalry, Gen. Warren's escort, gave vigorous chase efter cor anseying foo for some distance, and brought back a number of prisoners, Dering the day our forces THE MOVEMENTS IN VIRCINIA. The Flanking Operations of Grant---The Line of the Pamunkey. NEW YORK HE NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 30, 1864. RALD._— PRICE THREE CENTS. head, killing him iustantly. Captain Davis, of the same regiment, was taken prisoner during the night, while anaiating 10 locate the picket line, There are new but four officers left in this regiment. MRADR’S COMPLIMENTARY MOTICE. ‘The splendid fighting of the Fifth corps, succeeding the wadden and severe attack by Bill’s corps, on Monday evening, has elicited a complimentary notice from General Meade to General Warren. aAltbough « private lever, I beve been permitted te copy the opening sentence, the remainder having relation to the disposition of contiguous corps. 16 is ag follows:— Bzapqvantens, ARMY ov THE Potomsd, May 22—-10:30 P, M. 506 at all commensurate with the amount of labor asd amwunition expended by.tiie rebels, Warren and Wright ‘are also in conditios to give battle at @ moment's notice ‘Tne gap between Warren and Hancock on this side of the Tiver was filled with rebel treope at dark on Tuseday; but whether they were only 8 portion of some corpe left to dispate our crossing or the main body of the army was not definitely known to any, unless it were the eoss- taanding generals, @ , THe RERSLD IN FULL 5 ; An ‘intelligent contraband,’? to be the sor vant of General Leo’s chief of artillery, deserted and ame into our lines on Tuesday morning, Be says the rebels acknowledge our preponderance in men and metal, : Bt > Lee Apparently Bothered by walt serge fare Badges anan a"whish 308 ‘and have resolved to make no obstinate resistance ont ' Grant's Flank Movements, ree once. nae, ama, | sioner ro Pa — had . ap een tion smaase ‘ terday. He represents the entire rebel army in fell re - | moval, thes: oflcers bas s repetation or: ghtiog qualiticn too armiy eran. | {eet 10 Richmond, a8 says the sand wae made bere ¥ leases in thie late battles were thirty tnowand tie neo ridge ps hand fra solely pen wage — 2 to name, At the time of the yom hall ‘TURBDAY. Appearance of the Country and Crops | tt, ws, welch, whether ube saywhare Srtnde the origate cas jock getting lato postion, ence | ,,™2eDemy made a°more obstinate resttance tn feat the temporary panic seizing the men. The saving of the day undoubtedly is to be attributed to General Grifin’s & Baneock, on Tuesday evening, than was anticipated) Gnd subjected us to e furious artillery fire till dark from 6 | Along the Line of March. efficer further pore | . ouch preter bling ofan, part Fwy division, when received the burdes of the assault, pone ge norte yaneeag Neardeedenlber rags paninnnAnichrinnnannge irtinte the change to General Grant, aw do not like it, a ame shooters kept pia velyenaghne ers academe p pa MOVEMENTS OF TUR REDRA, Batterie ©, Third Massachusette, Lieutenant Welooth, | chet reonained in position. Among the tilled é . ante a Pao and H, First New York, Captain Mink on our ‘The Rebel Assault om the | Usmievsrd Bvers corre mued sown inesame Fight, Into he advancing: columns of tho scemy such | wens stag snot ioroegh, the beer’. Dy. © Fifth Corps. ‘what is called tho negro foot road, « parallel road, two murderous volleys of caso and canister did these Dat: 1 441, 9 nad the reputation of being) one of the miles to the right of us, ‘They were sald to ke pushing Sorte noe Gaak buses airs (0 tee thse Sook Sor rere ising yeung officers in the service, His tree ‘ a at the utmost possiblé speed for Hanover Junction. On both aides of the river we had twenty-four sannoa | 'orm or gergice expired the day be was killed ? Residents of the house way that those passing by hore engaged. How It W d by Gomee | “velco hay sey never saw a ght im whtah Tfol more serleualy com THE CASUALTIES. ie" Bev le . ow t as Repelle by I ie Siren nee the late Datilent”? cerned for the result, and similar apprehension, I God, ral Warren. wb, they eay they whipped you Yanks all to pleces,” vas fell, by everybody witnessing It. At this polot the | Caswaltics tm the 8 CASUALTIES, Haapquanruns, S200mp ARuy Corrs, } Naan Tarion’s Bupar, Va., May 26, 1664. Leo's army that remiained i the vicinisy of Spottsy!- ia Court Howse towards Hanover Court House ata quick. The cavalry columa left New Bethel at w York, taking tha advance with his ‘The few cavalry picests they enopt Tavern and Mount Holyoke church on the way. |, ene, ‘ At Taylor's bridge, on the North Anna river, they met enemy tn force, A brisk skirmish. immediately fel- ; Dut no advantage could be gained with so small a » she enemy being in a strongly, fortided Position , | pumber of Datteries planted is such a manner that @uld effectually shell our side of the river ia all direo- was the reply. “If they whipped us, how is it they are net pursuing ‘us, instead of we them?’’! ventured to inquite further. “(I never thought to ask about thas, but it does look a little queer though.” to say, about one hundred and fifty of them, the reat having re-enlisted, This regiment has behaved very Dy those baving s taste for this branch of Southern litera- ture. Near by his place is St. .Margaret’s ehurch, ap ancient edifice, built of imported English brick; but now, ig a sear and yellow condition. A tablet over the main entrance gives 1766 as the date ofits erection. FIOKING UF STRAGOLERS, Up at daylight, basty breakfasts and our dnward marob was resumed on Moaday, Our. flamkers continued to pick up representatives of the rebels scattered through the woods, Captain Hill, in cimmand of two companies , ofthe Sixteenth Michigan, was very successful fa thas foraging for rebels, Among his squad of prisonérs was Lieutenant Ferguson of the Fourteenth Louisiana, who says that out of four hundred and thirty meo, which his regiment began the campaign with, but forty are left. A gentleman of the sporting brotherheod, Pete Lake, of the Fifth Louisiana, formerly Perrott Guards, of New Orleans, Fifth corps were the only troops across the river. On this side the bank was precipitous and rocky. The river ‘was spanned by a single pontoon bridgé. On either side the water was in some places deep, and its bottom rough ‘with buge rocks; and the opposite bank, saving the nar- a ae, a DEPARTURE OF THR YOURTESNTH BROOKLYN. row road winding among the trees and rocks, was, if any- |. julnivan, z A steeper and ascent thaa that nt Papen i ~The Fourteenth Brooklyn, Colonel Fowler, ita term of ae See URE poker sei See pei weenie a puter Rodgers, Rinne Foose ze sole, ‘ Mr, Francia ©. Long’s Despatch. vervice having expired, left for home on Sunday; that fe course, wastho object of tho enemy’s assault, and to of. | Horst Thos Clark, x foot which he continuously exerted himself to his utmost, and in the outset assumed no doubt of success—we would GENERAL FOREERI’S ADVAKOR. handsomely General Torbert, with a part of the First cavalry divi- hos psaaroteg have had another Ball’s Bluff tragedy, but of terribly in-” With consisting of détachments from a number of regi- repenyrtet wlan ced iaibiash mnaitinde: corp @ F Bliss, D, $4 ce ta hie pe er'the % Incidentally 1t may be worth mentioning that the “ [om rey Te 4 revele on Monday morning, tbe fank movement on pay wail praca eee serge Mr. 8. Cadwaliader’s Despatch. Jom truest Mo 'tbetr right having had the éffect of sending that portion if NesmoPamcno Miiis, May 26—11 A. M. elon © Bean, 0 whjoh bed’ fed, and his letters’ were eagerly orused sun coven asora oon uns oF 44nd, Ree a ‘So much hag been said and written of the widespread desolation war bas caused in ‘Old Virginia that your readers may be surprised to learn that we are marching through a section of country abounding in large farms, with elegant residences and’ commotiions outbuildings, nearly wortblees on the ridges ad highlands that intor- yene. Yet even’ the latter are sown and planted, and promise to yield a handsome reward for the labor. Wherever we have gone since feaving the Wilderness large fields of waving grain have stretched away from the roads for maties, THE CROPS—=WHEAT, OTRW AND VEGET4BLES, Many of these plantations are under a high state of culti- vation for this section of the country, where farming is Bot reduced to a seience, as it is inthe North, among a denser population. The soll, moreover, is light and sandy in the lowlands that skirt tho creeks and rivers, aid band Jas MoGeary, Fred Donalson, rise tty, Sopp, @ arm iy auitin Jackson, p. 34 Me, Beary trees, x, i John Rook, B, 67th Pa, hip SAT oa a NY ie, Jef aren Dani Pacline, 10h Pa, fk, Ma A, Gor Gene wasea Sin o R ith Me, B TY q Bergt Ei » FB argh aes ndmeyer, Cor i be: 1 ia PF, < jorgt H Galbraith, T,1och Ba 4 Bath Pa ween ey, ‘a vi rT, ist Beat Dents Coliltor, Av7th Weston Band. 1 i ys Me .H, 2th NY. John BAN. A, 930 8 Bam A Kecesina, 1, 4th Me, Corp! B Baughman, B, dere. Bevaton, 1d i. H ae t Dani Ackerman Cyrus A Greely, H2d 0388 .D, 9th Pa Fou! Parser, D, o9th Pe foe! Pure eu'whins 3 z 4 le, gaatey, ic, 99th Pa Patrick Fitzgibbon, O, 724.8 ¥ joe! , 4th Me ) Prowob's battery promptly responded to the fro of ‘ONS. BRIDC 8 enemy ; bat he could de little more than hold bis posi- ‘was in the'same squad. Did not more weighty matters pregson my time and pen J could make ups deeply ‘The wheat invariably stands thiffi on the ground, but is nearly all well, beaded atid well advanced for the Joba Uapraban. Fett Seth Newoomb, C. d Mich abt Schwinghamaters Nib Y James O Delp, P. : ‘Albert Goodwin, B, at vi Cope wen : tJasB ‘Gil Ri Sorp Hotve Bump ga NY Ma; Win C Morgan, Bink ile i ‘until the Second corps ‘came up. The casualties in & : Je cement: OE teh “enn TE sad ese A Ne ee RIES Gree Rees «aie MTLEES $TATIO! season. Bot little rye, oats or clover has been found, | $"9 MeDowell, B,, ithe Be 7 a : . ‘experience in the Southern army. Jeff. Davis, he says, ‘ y Dut a large amount of corn has been planted everywhere, | Jno Pho: ah Yo, t Saye SS Beogs oo Sg jams Baas wink: is adoat played out, and he thought be would “pass in \ c ‘The latter is very sbert and backward, but » favorable Barren Leapee ot gadis: t fa as Goty Joel saskage, § igith Me capt Daniel Dougherty, Rs remand im the yw Cc Maken Nth Pa Barat Seah Corp A B.MeCiare, K, 2th fo! 1. a Bergt J.o0! Reece. 7th Wis Henry Red his chooks,” OM TO JERICRO—CROSSING SEB RIVER. Reaching Carmel church, we turned from the telegraph Foa@winto the Spottsylvania and Hanover Junction turn- pike, and proceeded direct ta Jericho Mille, or the ford of this name, on the South Anas river, It wasexpected that season might yet produce en average crop. The fencing id found ine better state-of preservation than was ex- pected, and in mest instances is fully eutMolent to pro- tect the growing crops. Every farmbouse bas an extea- sive kitchen garden adjacent, well filled with growiog esculeots, and the peopie in general have not that beif- At two-o'clock P. M. General Bitsy, with the Third 4i- Of the Second corpa, reached the field, and prepara- were commenced @nmediately for giving the enemy tm earnest. Colonel Pierce, f command of the Drignde, was seus to the right, and Col. Kage, with First brigade, to the left, the Third and Fourth bri. Doing in Line botwoen thom, eupenieand weeht Wo tantp We our ertaging, Nad. cat rebel starved and destitute appearance that has been 0, 1s 0 BE es and the Fiver ran a smali Greak or bayou, | Viettee were to be seen, although part of thelr army had FF 1s trequentty. chascved. in. other. places.” "We are a Ra ss ving & narrow, poalneuls'like apace, Upoo this the | crowed thesiver but aghertsime before, General Grif: 1 Toviog’ through an ‘ld; popelous, and. wealthy -por:'| Seinea OOskan Hi, an 3 y hed thrown up 9. strong, redoubt, in qwhish they. } 2'¢. division, which was in the advadce, reached the tion of the State, “and the iababilents have many ef | Jenn Outs. 0. 148 , motnted several pletes of cxunon: river Srat,and Colonel Sweltser's brigade. consisting of & | tre raxeries of Ne remaining. Ice houses’ and ice are i m6 te pgm 5 the Thirty-second Massschusette, Colonel Presoott; Ninth platy. Old corn.aed fodder are found st-every. house net , Our ekirmish ite advanced towards the river uider'a | Masssebusstts, Lieutensnt Colonel Henly; Sixty-seeood immediately on the main road. Live stock aad poultry Liew de Benes ape > ing ére trom « strong Tine of riflemen m theearth- | Feensyivania, Captain Maclay; Twonty.second \ are also abundant, The scatgity of male aad horses was | Corp, : ‘on the opposite side of the.creck. eetts, Colonel Tilton, and wi Fourth N noticeable slong the line of off march, They bad | Seo x aagare & ithe First brigade was immediately ta front of the rail.,| CsPtsin Marshall, was the first to cross the river. A been run off as we approached, to prevent their capture’! Hf peanens, G7 wie, | bridge, near which the'enemy were posted inanex- | WSF 18, Bot deep, but the bottom is rocky ‘and confiscation. £ Bocce O. toh Pe ve earthwork, in the form of screscent. This work | U0Cved, 8 Preity swift current, and Tonacoo. Byart prose. i, 1434 Fp vd bad redoubts, with cannon at latervals. About one bundred and fifty feet, General NS oes BOTTOMS BRIDGE The finest natural leaf Virginis tobacco abounds on Geo Spit, het itso pr tt Ayres’ Segste: sehen rid then Gon, Bartlett's. MoaKGCKETTS | 2 every band, cod be lens sig b w0 Seem mide Sern i Hlosman, B, 12 j i “ At once Sweitzer’ burried L 7 our privates. Each bis pockets, pouches haver- | J Taylor, C, 150th Ps * ‘ 3 0, "am Da Tent tans oes omendat tho brenden | area bil oppose, f pt og cnn \, oi! tack filled, ond huddreds havd bundles of 18 dangling | Hentz Thomas,G Man Pe Mase aaaid Barre :tiph eml-F cial Ving | dUicked tt through clearing beyond the hi Ps from thelr muskets, day after day, as they trudge through | Cor Vest Ie} re Beg D Weourlieg, & He Pw moore and mea ston bY Bim nobly, the work | 0 the edge of « ploce of woeds and fired « volley, £ the dust and mud. : SWaaroes Ye Wie apo sonren Eien: H ac the time inpoanible 10 sceompliah, ‘Tho rebel | 158 it Was not improbable that the enemy hed Rere con- sme Paaxt Foemoy. ° faa’ Wa We oa a ue poured a mardetous @re'et ‘grape ‘and canister | $e#led himself. Our Bring called out but faint response, Contrary to the general expectation, the rebels were | 5 aS ee ry Te eee averse charpabeolans tad ritemen be, | Dowever. The tnree brigades formed in DEltie line, and yeaterday found strongly posted in force within two Herat FY aan we John Mal Gee Te aris ubtesed wo with dueir fro. Too | 0002 Geueral Crawford and General Cutler's divisions miles of our Hines, ‘They lay tn the form of'a V, with the | J¥woarinar MW latMessart Wen O Babi Datteries,-« little in the rear of whe Becond brigade, crossed the river ona pontoom bridge which meantime apex reaching nearly tothe North Anna river, between ee balan ee 3 ye eo car ao ca #s | dod been Geeta birth the forde by which Warren and Hancock crossed thelr | Cline daa 7 SDilimes, 6, eh Pa, ; entre orn tthe oem | Kagearn sory, ster Lien eal Pre repeciectpe. The ereven aw erat wm mevne | Wa Ok omnes te wae . a portent ope, and some light Batteries also cressed—Fearth United troops from both crose‘igs of the rjver, and discover. Yee "Deis a, Raves. F, Y ee jog the enemy's exact location and strength. Their | SOT¢ MATOId. Oth Mee ete A eee D, led States artillery, Lieutenant Steward; Battery L, First New York, Captain Mink; Battery 0, Third Massachu- setts, Captain Walcott, and Ninth Massachusetts, Captain Bigelow. In position om the other side of the river, fronting a house where General Warren had temporarily erected his headquarters, was Battery D, First United Btates, Lioutenant Ritanbaus; First Cap- tain Cooper, and Battery D, First New York, Lieutenant ‘Brick. A REBEL AMMAULT IN FORCE. - art Sergt § W Goodwin, I, 1%b- od Paty , A, 149th Pa 8 Jol Pa Di ‘Lakeman was struck by a bollet and obliged to the Geld. dis wound is not deagerous, but quite lal. Be was wounded a few days ago. SWE INTRENCHSD REBEL FORCE. were tworegiments and a battalion of the rebels inteenehments, and their guns were at last silenced, and 4be niver, and retreated across the bridge. At we beid all the ground this side of the North Anca. \sround was found to be admirably chosen and ex- tensively fortified. The formation of their line gave them every possible facility for a quick move. ment of troops from ene flank ‘to, the other. A suc- cosefal assault would have involved great giaughter, and was not made. New movements were instituted on oor part. Wright's corps recrossed and marobed below to the rear of Hancock. Warren maintains his original position at present, but will follow. Ia short, another (UE THE REBELS BOGAN TO RETREAT. few officers inthe army sh Lee bes any oa. ferce on he North ‘The people along the weeks bas Opened ¢heir ges to the importamt fact they are not invinoible.s Mr, ts A, Hondrtah’s Deapateh. A TL ja,doy has passed thus.far without a general engage- ; but even yet we may hayes battle. before night. of our batteries, under Capt. Cooper and Lieut. Wol- are.now shelling the enemy inaur front, who is re ing. All day there hastheen sotive firing between irroigh limes, amd our cagualties cum up over forty. ops were Dusy all last might’ and to-day destroy. railroad im oer front, Ongamxa THE aT. oda On Sanday Mmerning our columa was ition, Geo. A wilet#’e brigadeaf Gen, Griffin's divi- ing. We cp cssed the Mat river without diMculty. previous rh vers, whose coujeined names make up tapony, thie i & mall, peresrsely crooked and atarly turbid ‘ream. Growing fields of oats and fences intact, fa tm houses, heviag left in them bacon, and neg T06s and white people, are seen— “the sacred soft 4 °° bavestrad® apo, where the of war has not m se Keelt paiafully 2 Adjutant General) hore‘ ricochetted and in the open field, doing no@ama, * beyond aston- the vertebrm of the Captain’s unm, *pecting Buce- of silencing thie battery, I belf an hour th’ " U loft, and @veh (te departure ended the day's hoe.) Sever Randied with finer spill. canine oes ommpe, We nt cna killed } Ohygplelely foiled om oupey alte, It was about four :?. M. when the entire corpa bad - crossed (he river, exeept the batteries named as staying -om the otter side, General Warren and most of his staff ‘wore also this side the river. The entire corps was placed im position and batteries located by General Warree per- sonally. Our skirmishers began feeling for the enemy. made their appearance, The Femrth division for a mo- mont gave way vader the suéden-shock; but .1t was only afterwards. General Griffin's and divisions met the assault with quick os bad been the of the enemy, we wore in readiness to resist the attack. ‘a while the mus- ketry firing was jncemant and terrible Our batteries am both sides of the river bpened ins moment. The fires giving way Of tho Fourth division cempelied Col. Sweit- zer'g brigade to ewing round a portien of his line on the Fight to protect bis flank, There regimonts of General Bartlett's brigade—the First Micbigan, | ieutenant Colonel Troope; Sixteenth Michigan, Major Eliott, apd Fighty- third Pennsylvania, Lieutenant Oolonel MoCoy—were sent to bis assistance, and, with the batteries erated on the right, resisted sucbessfullysthe repeated and despe rate efforts made to fank us, CAPTURD OF COLONMABROWN. Bere the Fighty-ftth regiment, an woking by the fank, met erebel regiment marching also by the fank, and, Getting the first fro, put the latter todight, but net until they had captured Col, Brown, comimariding MeGowaa’s 014 brigade, Wilcox’s division, and a larga namber ef otber Prisoners. This waa not the only insta\ce of our men Coming im band %6 heed conflict with the enemy. Col. Tilden, Sixteenth Maine, got into a personal tusele with a rebel, bat came of vitor, shough aot until be cmptied firmness, As his revolver on other rebels around bia. ‘fm comrsey aADED. Only with darkness closed the contest. The Fifth corpa bad behaved eplendidiy, 11 Bad Abe battle all to 1teelf, and there could he no or the troops and brillianey of the victory, the fight fe pe hh hy } Gp <3 WEA@TBROOK: ee Mi P ZG HIRLEY Foal J pp; aS 0D General Grant’s beadquartess were located on Saturday morning ten miles from Hanovertown, which was captured -@@ Friday, and was still in our possession, with she ferry ana other crossings of the Pamunkey river at that. oins. Tt was expected that the whole of the Army of the Potomac would be across the Pamunkey by noon on Saturday ‘The rebels were in possession of Hanover Court House and vicinity, and t was reported that Genera) Breckinridge It a only surprising that we did not lose more, consider. {mg that our mon had no earthworks or any protection to fight behind, It ie evident that the enemy have sustained much heavier lose, In front of Colonel Sweitzer’s brigade were found, after the Oght, thirty dead rebels. Among eur wounded is Lieut, Col. White Lieut Col, Bankhead, of General Warren’s staff, was shot im the heel. Captain Livermore, also of General Warren's stam, had two horses.shot under him. RESELS CAFTURED, ‘We have captured several handreé priconers. From them we learn that the troops ef Hill's corpe were those engaged in our front, All was quiet during that night, @xcept cncasional fring between the pickets, Our wounded werd all removed to the comps hospitals, on the other side of the river, and the corps feels proud of that dag"s work, (mn Reais EETIRD. ‘Tee enemy during the night withdrew from our imme diate front. A reeontotssance was made dhe aext morn, tng by some of the First division across the Kirginis Rail. road; but the encmy were found only fo small K7r0e. The Tecoumolasance discovered that at two o'clock thet mor. ing e train left for Gordonsville with the wounda t of the Previous day's battle. Our troops held the ratiroaa’, and it le probable that there will not another rebel train \ ase ever it for some time, COMPLINENTS—PROONERS. General Mende visited. General Warren on Tuesday’ morning, and complimented him very highly on tne bril- Nant vietory women Monday, and handsome manner in Way{bing. AG Any cogmmpnsation for evolgpenand bravery . fn action, be certainly deserves all that can be said in his praise. Wo have captured about five hundred Prisoners. Some of these prisoers have done a good deal of marching to gov here, having been Mm the fight at Plymouth; thence marebed to Newbern, to assist at the battle expected to bave been fought there; thence marched to Drury’s Buff and, from there here. ‘They any that ffteon brigades fougtt Butler, One pris- oner told me that they could stand ordinary cannon. Licat. Case, of Grifia’s staff, was wounded while in the skirmish bye Minio bail, which bit.aim on the elbow, inflicting a severe but not dangerous wound. Lieut. Appleton, Company E, Fifth Massachusetts bat- tory, was bit by @ rebel sbarpehooter im the arm, He eecaped with only e flesh wound, (Hele a Hoa. Nathan Appleton, of Boston, and staff, Chi cer in the corps artillery who bas tke commencement of the present campaign. wounds of none are serious, however, Capt, Davis, Brigade Inspector, wounded day befor: terday. His symtoms to-day are very uatavorable, and Jt is thought be cannot possibly recover Private Cooley, Ninety seventh New Work, was killed Dy & sharpshooter, He wan driving © stake On our i Hanover Court House, and will get it. OUR MARCH TO JERICHO. of previous dcspatebes, 1 will give a brief recapitulation of the marobing and fighting of the past week. On Friday night, May 20, from im front of, Spotsylvania Court House for Bowling Greén, by way of Mattspomax church and Guiney’s station, and arrived there about four P. M. on Saturday, Slight skirmishing occurred at one or two points on the way with small parties of soonts and pickets; but no force of considerable strength was en- countered on the marcb, A strong position was selectea and field breastworks thrown up that would have defied the combined assault of the Soutbero confederacy, On Saturday’morniog, at daylight, Warren’s corps was put io motion on the same read, and encamped that night pear Guiney’s station, where it was delayed an bour by @ detachment of the Ninth Virginia cavalry at the crossing of the Po, Burnside followed to Guiney’s station that night, and Wright brought up the rear aod had a sharp engagement with a portion of Bwell’s corps late in the evening. Warren pushed of Sundsy several miles; Wright for: lowed close in his rear; Burnside took an intermediate toad, between the telegraph and Bowling Green roads, und encamped on Sunday night near Little Bethe! church. CRoRsING THB NORTH ANNA. Monday Warren reached the crossing of the North Anna at this place, and immediately threw a portion of bis command across. Hancock marched from Bowling Green through Milford station, past the old Chesterfield tavern and Carmel church, to ® point about three miles below thie, and began forcing = passage of the river there. * ‘The attack on Warren and Hancock on Monday evening fe grapbicaily described by your corps correspondents, tnd js said to bave equalled any of the campaign for Impetuosity and obstinacy, but was gallantly repulsed at ‘All points, ‘Tne boldness nnd colerity of this flank move ment took the enemy completely by surpriee, compelled a hasty evacuation of hie intrenched pesition at Spott- aylvania, and to have barely given him time to hurry bis tains across the North Anva before our arrival. ‘Andther brilliant page ‘has been added te American Aistory. ‘The entire Army of the Potomac was across the North Anne river on Tuesday night, witbia four miles of Hanover Junction and twenty-five of the city of Rich- tmond, The troops are in splendid oppéition to deliver battle and ready for the fight, There can be no question Of Lee’s inability to cope with we in open battle, ai ‘Wariness, therefore, inseres a retreat, if it be ned already acoompiished. Hancock and Burnside were not completely across until ‘Tueaday evening, and a vigorous artillery duel took piace fetes day, Our longen om tbat ners of the Jing Wade. flank movement is in progress, This time we strike for ‘Leat the Jong line of uncertain communication between this and Washington may have delayed the transmission Hancock's corps started ‘34 Mosq Mariess, 34 Maon,| pape James Cawley, Ist WY art, Wil bet bat Gave fo. lot Soh eae Thao Anges a ete tae ws Uamiton, Mee zt Sikes Shih Funeral of Colonel George B. Hall, ‘Tho Inst rites due a valtant soldier and esteemed eitizem