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From General Lee's Army. [from our own correspondent.] Army of Northern Virginia,Spotsylvania C. H., May 9, 1864.
The operations in this quarter continue to be of the most interesting character.
On Saturday afternoon, the 7th inst., the date of my last letter, the cavalry reported that Grant, while keeping up a threatening attitude in our front, was preparing to move still further to our right, and in the direction of Spotsylvania Court-House, and Richmond.
Having fortified his position, especially on the plank road and turnpike, he hoped that a small force would be able to hold it, while the main body of his army was being moved to this place, the possession of which was a matter of the greatest consequence to Grant.
The road from Germanna Ford, on the Rapidan, by which he advanced, leads directly to this point, and thence to Richmond.
Other important roads, including one from Fredericksburg, intersect here, and render in a place of no little strategic value.
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