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The Daily Dispatch: May 12, 1863., [Electronic resource], Gen. Jackson. (search)
ess a part of Longstreet's division, sent to meet him, from Suffolk. It appears that a portion of the rebel army got between Gen. Sedgwick and the force menacing Gibbons, who held possession of Fredericksburg. Thus Lee was between Sedgwick and Hooker, and Sedgwick in turn between two parts of Lee's army — Gen Sedgwick had been ren by destroying the bridge, which was their principal object. It may be that instead of attempting to join Gen. Hooker, Sedgwick will return to the relief of Gibbons, as the rebels were discovered on Monday morning only two miles below United States Ford, and at daybreak commenced shelling our trains on this side the Rappahannon with these rebel movements on Monday was the silence of Gen Hooker. The enemy must have detached over 30,000 men from his main body to over whelm Sedgwick and Gibbons, yet Gen. Hooker does not seem to have been able to take advantage of or prevent it. Sedgwick could not have been more than six miles distant from Hooker's left w