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The Daily Dispatch: May 7, 1864., [Electronic resource], The grand movement on Richmond. (search)
. In the afternoon a print telegram was received from Major Hill, brother of Lieut. Gen. A. P. Hill, to the following effect: "Orange C. H, May 6.--We are driving the enemy at all points this morning. Gen. Hill and his staff are well." As the enemy, according to Gen. Lee's telegram, had concentrated upon Gen. Hill's corps, this telegram showed that his assaults and not only been "successfully resisted," at that Gen. II. was driving them at all points. A telegram from Major John Dooley, of the Richmond Ambulance Corps, reiterated the pleasing information that the news from the front was cheering, and added that 1,200 Yankee prisoners had already been sent to Orange Court House. It appears, from all we can learn, that our army is facing to the north, with its right resting on Fredericksburg, and that Grant bought on the fight by attempting to turn our right and gain possession of the road to Bowling Green, in Caroline county, thus placing himself between General