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VIRGINIA
At this writing the siege of Petersburg
itill continue-3. When Gen. McClellan was
in command of the army of the Potomac,
he undertook the capture of Richmond by
fitting down before it and besieging it. Gen.
Grant is p.;r:2l:,ing a somewhat different
course. Ile is moving now in such a way,
as we believe, will render the capture of
not only - Richmond but Lee's army a com
parittively easy task, when some preliminary
matters are attended to. Grant is aiming to
cut Lee and Richmond off from all connec
tion with any other part of the Confederacy.
To this end he has destroyed all the rail_
roads leading to and from Richmond except
the Danville railroad, and
.it may be safely
inferred that it will not be allowed to remain
unmolested. Should Lee choose to fight an
open battle with Grant, he will not be able
to do as he did when he fought McClellan
and others who have commanded the army
of the Potomac—reinforce his army by rail_
road from other parts of the Confederacy.
This cutting of the railroad communication
will help in another way to take Richmond
and capture Lee's army. Should Lee elect
to undergo a siege in Richmond or Peters
burg, he will soon find himself short of pro
visions, with no available means of obtaining
them. It will be evident to every thinking
man that when these preliminaries are set
tled, the capture of the enemy and his capi
tal will be but, a matter of time, and Grant
will have little else to do, than sit down
before Richmo s pd and wait until the rebels
get thoroughly hungry. By this means also
thousands of valuable lives will be saved.
But little has been done during the past
week, besides the execution of important
movements. A movement has been going
on the entire week, the details of which has
not yet reached us. It is thought that the
more close investure of Petersburg is the oh_
ject in view. In our last issue we alluded to
the fact that much of the fighting up to that
time at Petersburg had been done by the
18th corps in which were a number of col
ored soldiers who behaved with great gal
lantry. Caen. Smith commanding that corps
has since issued a congratulatory order, in
which he compliments the colored troops
highly, we give
Gen. Baldy Smith's Congratulation to the
- Eighteenth Army Corps.
To THE 18TH ARMY CORER : The General
commanding desires to express to his com
mand his appreciation of the soldierly quali
ties which have been displayed during the
campaign of the last seventeen days. With
in that• time they have been constantly
called upon to undergo all the hardships of
the soldier's life, and be exposed to all his
dangers. Marches under a hot sun have
ended in severe battles, and after the battle
watchful nights in the trenches gallantly
taken from the enemy.
But the crowning point of the honor they
are entitled to has been won since the morn
ing of the 15th inst., when a series of earth
works on most commanding position.s and of for
midable strength have been carried with all the
guns and materials of war of the enemy, including
prisoners and colors. The works have all been
held, and the trophies remain in our bands.
This victory is all the more important to
us as the troops have never been regularly
organized in camps where time has been given
them to learn the discipline necessary for
a well organized corps d'armec, but they have
been hastily concentrated and suddenly
summoned to take part in the trying cam
paign of our country's being. Such honor
as they have won will remain imperishable.
To the colored troops comprising the division of
Gen. llinks, the General commanding would call
the attention of his command. With the, veterans
of the 18th Corps they have stormed the works of
the enemy and carried them, taking guns and
prisoners, and in the whole affair they have dis
played all the qualities of good soldiers.
By command of W. F. Smith, Maj.. Gen.
Wm. RUSSELL, jr., Assistant Adjt.-Gen.
Official: SOLON A. CARTER, Captain and
A. A. A. G.
A Heavy Cannonade.
From six to eight o'clock on Friday morn
ing the 24th inst, one of the most terrific
cannonades of the present campaign raged
along the front of the 18th Corps, Gen.
Smiths. It will be remembered that he
holds next to the Appomattox, within less
than a mile of the city. His line stretches
across the plain at right angles with the
river, while the rebels have undisturbed
possession of the left bank opposite, and a
long distance in his rear. On that bank
they suddenly uncovered GO guns, subjecting
the 18th Corps to an enfilading fire and re
verse fire.
With the exception of Gettysburg, the
war has not afforded another instance of so
many guns concentrated upon one point
and firing so rapidly for such length of
time. The plain seemed aline with bursting
shell, the discharges were as continuous and
rapid as the ticking of a watoh. It did not
seem possible that men could remain there
and live, but they did both, so effectually
were they covered, that two hours of such
pounding though it strewed the ground with
fragments of shell like broken crockery
around an old tavern, caused a loss of only
30. Meanwhile our own guns replied, and
the cannonading ran along the line until the
mortars of the 2d Corps, miles away, rang
the chorus. A t length the enemy attacked
with men as well as cannon. They very
foolishly moved a thin line upon our works,
since ascertained to have been Haygood's
South Carolina brigade of Hoke's division.
The repulse was the work of but a few
minutes, s and was complete. One hundred
and sixty-five prisoners fell into our hands,
among them five commissioned officers.
Nearly all of these fell into the hands of
Col. Henry's brigade, of Stannard's (late
Brooks's division. By a stratagem on the
part of Col. H. (observing that the force ad
vancing was SO slender that he need not fear
it,) he at once withdrew his pickets and
ordered •his men not to fire. The rebels ran
up and took the rifle-pits. His, pickets were
then ordered to surrender, and compelled
to do so.
These pits were so constructed as to afford
no protectii n to the rebels when they had
got into them. They are called French
rifle-pits, and are simple excavations shaped
like an old-fashioned kitchen dusting-pan,
like the half of-a square box sawn through
diagonally from corner to corner, with the
deep end toward the enemy. That deep
end is protection :to our pickets, and then,
if driven out, the next line'has a direct fire
through the shallow end upon any who may
seek shelter in it. If the rebels expected
with their sixty guns to make the phiin too
hot for us, and, thinking they had done se,
advanced their line to occupy our works,
they were stupendously mistaken.
President Lincoln Visits the Army.
During the early part of the week, Presi
dent Lincoln paid a visit to the headquar
ters of the Army of the Potomac. He re
turned from his visit to the front, satisfied
with the condition of things, and confirmed
in his confidence in Grants's extraordinary
qualities as a commander. Mr. Lincoln was
accompanied by Capt. Fox, Assistant Secre
tary of the Navy, and Col. Chadwick, of
Willard's who acted as chief caterer of the
Presidential party. He was received at City
Point by Gen. Grant, and conducted to the
Lieutenant-General's headquarters. After
partaking of refreshments, the President
and Capt. Fox, accompanied by Gen. Grant
rode out to the front, a distance of ten miles.
Mr. Lincoln, en route to the front, passed
the colored troops in review. As soon as
the fact was made - known that the tall
stranger with Gen. Grant was the President,
they began to cheer. Demonstrations of
curiosity and joy were manifested all along
the lines. The party halted at our advance
works before Petersburg, where the Presi
dent had a fine view of the city. As this
visit was in the midst of active operations,
the Commander-in-Chief did not visit .the
several corps of the Army of the Potornac.
On Wednesday the President and party
visited Gen. Butler's headquarters, and
under escort of the General and staff rode
to the extreme right of his lines, near Far
rar's Island, on the James River, and within
sight and good range of a rebel battery only
1,900 yards off. This battery is on the
south side of the James, just above the ob
structions placed in the river by order of
Gen. Grant.
On Tuesday this battery opened upon our
extreme right, without doing any damage,
when one of the monitors lying near the ob
structions replied with a 15-inch Dahlgren,
and dismounted or silenced every gun in it.
One or two of the rebel rams, plying on
the James River, for the protection of Rich
mond came down on Tuesday as far as the
vicinity:of Dutch Gap and threw some shells
overland, but they fell harmless. The rams
are afraid to round the bend of Farrar Is
land, fearing the 15-inch Dahlgrens on our
monitors lying just below the obstructions.
The President found and left Gen. Grant
in the very best of spirits, and confident o
a successful result.
How we Failed to Take Petersburg.
The following is given by a correspondent
of the New York limes, as a reason for the
failure to take Petersburg, during the first
movement against that city
When early on Wednesday morning, the
15th, the Second Corps had effected the pas
sage of the James River at Windmill Point,
Gen. Hancock was metby a dispatch from the
commanding General, directing him that, if
provisions had arrived, he should ration his
men before proceeding toward Petersburg.
Just at this time he receiVed information,
seemingly reliable, and conveyed, I believe,
by an engineer officer who had just come up
from the poontoon bridge, to the effect that
the transports had arrived with supplies.
This fact Gen. Hancock communicated to
the commanding General, stating that he
would soon begin issuing rations, and would
then move forward as directed.
The information proved to be a mistake—
a lamentable mistake—the transports had
not arrived. Yet this simple error caused a
delay in the movement of Hancock's corps
of five hours and a half. His column joined
Gen. Smith's troops at 1 o'clock on the
morning of Thursday. But had he been up
earlier by the difference noted of five and a
half hours, he would have reached the front
at 7.30, on the evening of Wednesday, which
was precisely the moment at which Gen. Smith
made his attack !
Thursday morning revealed a new actor on
the stage—a new element introduced into the
problem. While our troops were coming updu
ring the night, Beauregard also came up, and
the reconnoissance of Thursday morning de
veloped him in fore in a line hastily thrown
up during the night, and a little closer to
the town, but still strong enough to check
our ,advance. The; militia was relieved
—Beauregard's force, numbering thirty
'thousand men, and reinforced by the addi
tion of Bushrod Johnson's command, took
their places. Men of very different mettle
these, froth the crude soldiers to whom the
defence of the works of Petersburg had been
intrusted I
It is true the assaults of the two succeed
ing days drove the enemy from their tempor
ary position, but it was only to fall back on
a line hugging the town, which Beauregard
was preparing in:the meanwhile, and which
constantly strengthened during the interval
that has since elapsed, stands between us
and the desired point as formidable an ob
stacle as we have yet encountered.
This line was assaulted along our entire
front on Saturday last in an engagement, the
details of which I shall presently recount.
The attack was similar in character to that
made on the lines of the Chickahornminy on
the 3d inst. It resulted, like that, in serious
loss of life, and the issue was of asimilar kind
—that is, we failed to carry cur point.
A like untoward fortune attended the
attack of Gen. Butler on that portion of the
rebel position lying north of the Appomattox.
Meeting, like Smith, with but feeble resis-,
tance from the local troops in the attack on
Thursday, he seized the Petersburg and
Richmond Railroad,and destroyed it in part;
but Longstreet's arrival compelled Gen.
Butler to withdraw his command to his origi
nal line.
Rebel attack upon White House.
At 6 o'clock on the morning of the 20th
inst., Gen. Fitzhugh Lee and Wade Hampton
made an attack on our forces intrenched,
under Gen. Abercrombie.
The Rebels charged upon our works, but
were repulsed and driven back by our gun
boats there, the Commodore More, Capt. Bab
cock, and two others, which opened a
heavy fire on the rebels.
At 7 o'clock, the rebels, having succeeded
in planting a battery of three guns in range,
returned the fire upon our gunboats and land
forces. This artillery firing was kept up,
until 4 o'clock in the afternoon. About noon
the Commodore More threw a shell that ex
ploded a rebel caisson, causing great confu
sion and having the effect of slacking the
rebel fire very perceptibly. The rebel loss
was comparatively heavy. Some prisoners
captured Say, that they mistook onr gunboats
for transports, and had expected to capture
our troops at the .White House before Gen.
Sheridan's command arrived, and then in
tercept his force, and if possible, prevent his
sale arrival at White House. In all these
movements they were defeated. Our loss
was only three wounded one mortally. At
3 o'clock in the afternoon Sheridan's advan
ced guard arrived at the White House, and
at 5 o'clock the General arrived there with
his entire command. •
Opinion of Assistant Secretary of War
Chas. A. Dana, Esq., formerly of the
New York Tribune, now assistant secretary of
war, accompanied Mr. Lincoln in his= late
visit to the army .of the Potomac. Ile, will
be accepted throughout the United States
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1864.
as one of the most intelligent and cool ob
servers that have studied the war, as well as
one of the most truthful of men. He has
answered the questions of anxious inquirers
about the situation of Petersburg, to the ef
fect that Lee's force is not more than two
thirds of Grant's; that our losses last week
in the movement toward the Weldon Road
were militarily unimportant, and that Grant
had his hand on Lee's throat, and would
keep nis hold till he strangled him to death.
He gives to all the assurance of our final
and conclusive success. Among the striking
facts which Mr. Dana has mentioned is that
we have at this moment 51,000 of the rebel
soldiers prisoners in our hands in the Capital.
Evacuation of Kenesaw Mountain..
A correspondent of the — N. Y. Tribune,
writing from the headquarters of Sherman's
army, under date of June 19th, says: The
enemy evacuated their stronghold on liene
saw Mountain just before daylight this
morning, to the great astonishment of our
troops, who expected and were prepared for
a most desperate battle at this point. As
soon- as the retreat was discovered, Gan.
Sherman ordered a pursuit, and, up to the
present hour of writing, our skirmishers have
advanced beyond the first two rebel paral
lels, with but little skirmishing, confined to
rebel_ cavalry, who are evidently harassing
our advance in order to, give Johnston time
to get safely into his new position. As I
write the enemy's shells are whizzing over
our ranks, but without much effect. The
entire army started at an early hour this
morning in full pursuit. Orders have been
given for the cars to follow on to. Marietta.
We shall undoubtedly occupy Marietta, to
night.
The Attack on the Weldon Railroad.
On Tuesday the 21st inst., Gen. Grant un
dertook to seize and destroy the Weldon
Railroad a little south of Petersburg. The
18th Corps was sent down from Bermuda
Hundred, while the 2d and 6th were succes
sively thrown to-the left in the direction of
the railroad.. The rebels discovered the, lat
ter movement in time to attack our advanc
ing columns in flank. By the glaring fatilt
of somebody, the divisions of the 2d Corps
—temporarily under the command of Geri.
Birney—became disunited, and the rebels
struck in between on Wednesday afternoon.
Barlow's division lost 1,000 prisoners. Mc.
Knight's battery of four guns was captured.
Gibbon's division seems to have been rolled
up very suddenly, the rebels appearing in its
rear, surrounding and capturing whole regi
ments before a shot had been fired on our
side. - Nearly a whole brigade went in this
way, and a correspondent justly remarks
that where such troops as the 15th and 19th
Massachusetts, veteran regiments of high
renown, are taken prisoners bodily, the fault
can lie only with the general officers, or with
some one of them. Altogether, we lost
about 2,000 prisoners from the two divisions,
Barlow's and Gibbon's—pretty heavily also
in killed and wounded. The 6th Corps,
which was in advance, remained intact.
When the rebel attack became known,ltick
etts was halted, and marched to the support
of the. 2cl. Re-enforcements were brought
up also from the sth, then holding the left
of the intrenched line. But the rebels made
no attempt to press their advantage.
. Thursday morning, the 6th and 2d again
went forward. The reached the Weldon
Railroad and went to work destroying it, but
before much had been done '
was attacked
and driven back. The rebel assault was so
persistent that it was deemed best, to with
draw to intrenchments in expectation of a
general engagement. The advanee to the
railroad, therefore, amounted to nothing,
very little damage having been done to the
track, and the position gained having been
abaxidoned almost as soon as it was taken.
But the expected engagement did not occur:
The two corps maintained their line, and
the weight of the 'rebel assault on Friday
fell wholly and ineffectually on the 18th
Corps, g t the other end of the line. .
Advices from the Army of the Potomac
are up to Sunday: morning the 26th ult.
The only event of any importance that had
transpired was the junction of Sheridan's
cavalry with Grant's army, they having ef
fected the crossing of the James River at
Wilcox's Landing without any losses of con
sequence. Wade Hampton followed in his
rear, and endeavored to harass him; but
failed to do any material damage.
When he commenced to cross a brigade
of infantry was sent down to cover his rear.
Some stragglers were gobbled up en route, but
no wagons were lost. They crossed the
Chickahominy below the old site of Jones'
Bridge, and passed through Charles City
Court House over the old line of march.
GEN. SHERMAN'S ARMY
No general movement has taken place in
Georgia since our last issue, and intelligence
from that department is very meagre, and
consists mainly of accounts of guerrilla ope
rations. These guerrilla parties are giving,
Sherman considerable trouble, and the coun
try in which his army now is, is peculiarly
favorable to their operations. The campaign
in Georgia is second in importinee only to the
Virginia campaign. Sherman's army has been
fighting more or less for over nine days. In
some respects they have had greater diffi
culties to 'encounter than the Army of the
Potomac. For four•or five days it rained
constantly, and little could be done but
flounder in the mud, which in some places
was little better than the Virginia soil.
The rebels are fortifying their position at
Marietta and Atlanta strongly, and Johnston
is known to have been reinforced from dif
ferent quarters of the Confederacy, princi
pally from the South-west. It is the deter
mination of our Government, however, to
push the war against Johnston in Georgia
as vigorously as against Lee in Virginia,
and whatever Sherman needs in the way of
men or means to carry on offensive opera
tions against the enemy, will be furnished
him. There is in reality but two armies of
the rebels of any considerable importance,
these are Lee's and Johnston's. After they
are destroyed there remains but little of
the military _power 'of the rebellion to be
subdued. Whether or not Gen. Sherman.
shall be able to destroy Johnston's force, it
is very certain he can so occupy its atten
tion as to prevent any portion of it going to
reinforce Lee by the Tennessee and Danville
Railroad. This is of itself an important
feature of the campaign, because it forces
Lee to meet Grant with whatever force he
now has without any hope of receiving
further assistance from other, parts of Re
beldom. The latest intelligence from Gen.
Sherman gives the following items of news:
On the morning of the 18th inst. the rebel
General. Wharton, commanding a brigade of
2500 men, crossed the railroad between
Kingston and . ,Th.;lton, capturing and burn-
Sheridan Joins Grant.
ing five freight trains loaded with supplies
for the Union army. On the 20th Captain
Glover made a raid on the railroad, five
miles 'from Resaca, and captured two rebel
freight trains with supplies. Col. Lagrange,
of the First Wisconsin Cavalry, commanding
a brigade, was captured on the 19th. On the
19th ult., three companies of the Fifty-fourth
Virginia (rebel) infantry came into our lines
on the Chat•ahoochie and took the oath of
allegiance. They were employed as team
sters and laborers. A camp of rebel con
scripts, on the Hendersonville road, six miles
from Atlanta, on Friday broke for our lines.
They numbered eight hundred, six hundred
of whom got in, but the remaining two hun
dred were captured by the relfels. Ira B.
Tuttle, chief scout of the Army of the Cumber
land, on the 11th inst., with four men, made
a daring descent on a forage post, fourteen
miles southwest of Atlanta, He captured a
rebel Lieutenant-Colonel, a Captain, and
others; including a sergeant ; burned a store
house„ containing 500,000 bushels of corn
and a large lot of bacon.
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Front the Red. Thomas TFin(er, Pas/or of Roxberoujj:
Baptist .church:
De. „recast's—Dear Sir: I feel it due to your excellent
preparation—Hoofland's German Bitters—to add my
testimony to the deserved reputation it has obtained.
I have tor years, at times, been troubled with great
disorder in my . head and nervous system. I was
advised by a friend to try a bottle of your German
Bitters. 1 did so, and experienced great and unex
pected relief. My health has been very materially
benetitted. I confidently recommend the article where
I meet with cases similar to my own, and have been
assured by many of their good effects. Respectfully .
yours, . T. WINTER.
Roxborough, Pa., December, iltS.
From Rev. T. Newton Brown, D. D., Editor of the Env
dopecdfa of Raigibus Know/edge:
Although not disposed to favor or recommend Patent
Medicines in general, through distrust of their ingre•
clients and effects; I yet know of no sufficient reasons
why a man may not testify to the benefits he believes
himself to have received from any simple preparation.
in the hope that he may thus contribute to the benefit
of others. .
do this more readily in regard to Hoofland's German
Bitters, prepared by Dr. -O. K. Jackson, of this city,
because I was prejudiced against them for many years,
under the impression that they were chiefly an-alco
holic mixture. I am indebted to my friend, Robert
Shoemaker, Esq., for the removal of this prejudice by
proper tests, and for encouragement to try them, when
suffering from great and long continued debility. The
use of three bottles of these Bitters, at the beginning of
the present year, was followed by evident relief, and
restoration to a degree of bodily and mental vigor which
I had not felt for six months before, and had almost
despaired of regaining. I therefore thank. God and my
friend for directing me to the ustrof them,
Philada., June 23, 1861. J. NEWTON BROWN.
PARTICULAR NOTICE
There are many preparations sold under the name of
Bitten, put up in quart bottles, compounded of the cheapest
whiskey or common runs, costing from 20 to 40 tents per
gallon, the taste disguised by ilimse or Coriander Seed.
This class of Bitters has caused and will continue to cause,
as long as they can be sold, hundreds to die the death of the
drunkard. By their use the system is kept continually under
the influence pf alcoholic stimulants of the worst kind, the
desire for liquor is created and kept up, and the result is alt
the horrors attendant upon a drunkards Life and death.
For a Liquor Bitters, we publish the following receipt.
Get ONE BOTTLE HOOFLAND'S GERMAN BITTERS
and mix with THREE QUARTS OF GOOD BRANDY OR
WHISKEY, and the result will beta preparation that will
FAR EXCEL in medicinal virtues and true excellence any
of the numerous liquor bitters in the market, and will COST
MUCH LESS You will have all the virtues Of HOOF
LAND'S BITTERS in connection with a good article of
liquor, at a much less price than these inferior preparations
will cost you. .
Attention, Soldiers t. and the Friends of Soldiers.
We call the attention of all having relations or friends
in the army to the fact that" 800 - FLAND'S GERMAN
BITTERS" will cure nine-tenths of the diseases tuduced
by exposures and ptival ions incident to camp life. In
the lists, published almost daily in the newspapers, on
the arrival of the sick, it will he noticed that a very
large proptrtion are sudfgring from debility. Every
case ot that kind can be Nattily cured by Hootland's
German Bitters. Diseases resulting from disorders of
the digestive organs are speedily removed. We have
no hesitation in stating that, if these Bitters were freely
used among onr soldiers, hundreds of lives might be
saved thaiotherwise will be lost. ,
BEWARE OF COB-NTERFEITS
See that the Signature of" C. N. JACKSON" is on the
WRAPPER of each bottle.
PRICE PER BOTTLE 75 CENTS.
OR HALF DOZEN FOR $4.
Should your nearest druggist not have the article, do
not be put off by any of the intoxicating preparations
that may be offered in its place, but send to us, and we
will forward, securely packed, by express.
PRINCIPAL OFFICE AND MANUFACTORY,
No. 681 Arch Street.
JONES & EVANS,
(Successors to C. M. JACKSON & C 0.,)
PROPRIETORS.
4511 - For sale by. Druggists and dealers in every town
in the United States.
TO JOHN GOOD, ESQ.,
921 SPRUcE STREET
The undersigned having used the RICHARDSON
PREMIUM AIRTIGHT SEPULCHRAL CASKETS" in
their families, deein it but justice to say, that their
many •excellent qualities deserve their approval, and
richly merit public patronage. They are well calcu
lated. tor what they were intended, and as all end joints
are discarded by the invention of circular ends, they are
much more durable, and greatly relieve the minds of
those who may be called- to mourn the lose of the
revered and beloved of unhappy impressions.
Rev. J. W. Smith, 514 South Tenth street, Philada.
Richard Gardiner, M.D., 526 Spruce street.
Ed. Hutchinson, 522 Pine street.
Stuart Hibbler, N 0.40 North Third street.
.1. S. Morton, 217 South Third street.
Jacob Bartholomew, 908 South Fourth street.
Dr. David G. Walton, 154 North Seventh street.
Robert Johnson, No. 514 North Fourth street.
Witham C. Flanigen, 1520 Locust street
Right Rev. Thomas M. Clark, Providence, R. I.
Rev. Daniel March, 822 Pine street. . 967
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A neat, cheap article, easy to use. Every sheet will kill
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exertion, secure one of these valuable instru
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Photograph of the Hrunmiston Children.
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