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Latest War News.rte1h»tyThe news from Ibe -eu* of war* daring the p«t Week, hiw mostly been favora- tl bl©, ctieering and eoauuraging. I be Li-it*?i nt »'9 from Gen, Grant's army is thatGet • IVnm n had «ftucked the rebel lineon ilio extreme right. capturing a nnro* her of prisoner*. Meade a so carriedthe enemy 's I sue near Poplar Grove.1 !■•} l.tih corp« under *»'jn. Optl, cfo-1' tel the Jiime- on Thursday night, and in f In* morning the in trench me nil on ,f Cb a pin's farm were carried, and prisoner* and ' 1 guns captured. This— ' — • A ayticbn0n01t was directly opposite Fori Darling. Onnuy1*ietireniiSWednesday night the rebels made a fu- il rtou* tiHtick in front of Fori Sedgwick, hJ but were repulsed with great loshf. Therrliel dffsertere report great consternation t in Richmond, and that many ciltr mi* «red packing up and leaving.A ili*patch from Sherman States that»f he bat made an actual exchange ol i'OtJ'l/ nf hi* own army, and has made an nr* it run .* me fit with IIhkI to tend otherP prisoners 11 supply of duelling, A' c.16 Tin? l/i't dlirot account frotn Sheridan*' dates tin Sunday evening nt Newmarket.r' UL advance was t!n-n at Staunton* 11 c troops were picking up scattered bod tea r of I orfy - m n, who tio longer showed d fight, hut Wf r * w lo lly il-pit ited. Iv.irlyc seems decidedly “a used up man.”0 MMsotiri hi* b* *m nLr^in invaded by - the r:jb**U, Th*-y att a eked Ironn 1 nod0 'were dofoiiud. Tliev *hfo lost .V men1 in their attack un Mineral LGint. At(.Vnindiu ;i I v* tcnuM who werr rettim-) tog home from Atlanta, wa r.- shot in. c-d J blood, and I he ir budic* horribly niu-r tilnted. Three citizen* and the express agent were also murdered by tlie-e rebeld demon*. Pilot Knob has been evanttn*■ t J, and the entire country below the(iS'0IbnPASIr*11sus Mei rfmnc bridge ha« been'Abandoned totrcitititiitnti1tctIruovIT!N1tnWhisud the rebel*.»■ 'I he c be Is inf. the entire countryh oufh of Ie Soto, plundering r very body they meet. I hay have lists of alt I nion mm on their route, whom they kill onsight. They conscript nil copperheads mid old mm, and boy* ol 13. St. Louis | h full of refugees fr. 111 tltirf section, and large numbers tire emigrating to IllinoF and other state*. | ^I After the evacuation of Pilot Knob, a orI f rjiifi of »• f wagon* wiik .]■ ■;{ roy r-I D, tho InI rebel* between Irundth* and Mimtul M Fuint. and the men w re miislt;*iicred with- rl^ out demutiding 1 heir surrender. r4*'ForreM h again active in Tcnne*-ec.A party of his men burnt the Sulphur Springs bridge, and wandered everycolored man oti wboui wa^ found the uni*form of the soldier. (^t Our profmdfci liuvo cctuty nil been 1 !l’r in-'Vtd from Ami*■» 'urn il-Oa. Mu- ‘ ** .• I |iny bnvtj been Rent to Florence, S. t*,.| and some f.000 are ul the Cbarlentovi* 1 nets course. Snine I2o0 of our oflicer-n urn at CbnrlealotJ. They arot better to re, but the mortrtliJy cuntinues 1. to be great. Among the Vermont of!F« i‘f*r.lit jre urc Lh ti. M. Sargent, fromNewport, 0 member of Co. Ft HeavyArtillery, Lr. .MeWuin, II. A., SerghT.. S. Itichard^, II. A , Ciipt. li sutinj n Copt- Chopin, I,t. C. W\ Co,. I A, L. W. Fi-lw-r, l.t,,I. CitrHuher. Lt. d B. Need-ImiD, Id. W. \V. alt of the 1th ca'»2. 1 Isivzrrgimt nt, l citbs Idcuts. F. IS. Porker |!i.. mid G. IL Sawlc*, of the i t Artilley. nvWe have (lie m ^t cheering new-s from U the d inns ltivcr. C-t-n. M .1 h- made r- two uc' ^s-ful «:hnrglt; ^ on two rebel Iine,v un Friil *y. carrylfTg their cntrenchmtmi-*, Cien. Birrn y h h.L tncteg on liichmoiid, it and ad the fortlficattuui oppo$i»e Fort It Darling except one Fire captured, The •d ri'htda corn in uuio retreat low turd Kicb*,y | mund. and l \ ter,-.burg seems on the eve% of bf-iitg captured.id Wijhin n few (11 ■ ^ our trrmp* have w,etipiurei) L1! gun*. Ib fggee* from Uich*1^lunnil rcpurt great despondency there, 0f and J»flf Dnvi* was icen cm ilia street* ib on the dOth. exceedingly abject arid worn 1 e. in hi* appearance. Tho citizens are iy leu* i:i;, and s»ay w,lt;u cau;'bi nap re ping this time, as Grant's movementsId were? never dreamed of.I hut. Sully hit* b ul iv battle with fiUCKl in ludivns and deb ntt d them. The Indi*[*■ nn* had attacked (/apt. Fi.'k’n train.t*RHbnho1*ywIhbofirgfJhrlieMoiliguintovs.picre
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Irasburgh Orleans Independent Standard
Irasburg, Vermont, US
Fri, Oct 07, 1864
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