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The Army Of The Potomac

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Parent Issue
Day
16
Month
October
Year
1863
Copyright
Public Domain
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New Yoük, Oot. 12. The Washington correspondent of the Commercial states, under date of Sunday. llth: "The city was sornewbat stariled thia mornin,' at the authentic nevvs irorn the Eiipidan that tha robe! army bad abaudoned its lateposition on thesoutb bank of thnt stream and that our eavalry had already encountered one of ile retreating col ütnüs. Thia intelligence was renderod exciting by the widespread rumor fonnded merely on inlerence dcubtless, that the retrogrado mvement of Lee simply meant the resumption of the oü'ensive by a flank moveinent around througfi tho ineide of the Warrenton lina to the north bank of the Rappabannock, tli us plaoing the rebtl forcea betwen Meado and Washington, alter the marnier in vvhich Stonewull Jackson flanked Pope on tho same ground. If theso really be tho rebel plans, they have been fairly thwartcd. General Meade is not the man to be caught in so oíd a trap " Those who carne froin the army this morning seem to agree in the in preston that the relreat is to -draw the rebel army clc.se to the railroad at Gordonsviile, where the rebels havo an extensivo depot of supplies, vvliere a forcé will probably be left and the remainder ol the army sent tbere or to the defenses of Richmond. All miütary men concnr in believing that the rebels do not intend any eampaign in i'iiainia this autiimn,"but as the rebels have made tho first movernent, the true sequel will soon be at hand "

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Old News
Michigan Argus