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say what number, nor estimate either our or the enemy's casualties. During the night the enemy made several assaults to regain what they had lost, but failed." No dispatches from any other quarter have reached the department to day. Edwin M. Stanton. Secretary of War. And this is the other, dated at Fortress Monroe on the 3d instant: The steamer George Washington, from White House at 7 o'clock this morning, has arrived. It is reported that General Fitzhugh Lee and fivetered away on his part, will surely be his last. The extraordinary energy of Gen. Grant requires something more from the Administration than the extraordinary slowness which has hitherto marked its support of our Generals in Virginia. Secretary Stanton is now doing well; but to "make assurance doubly sure." now, while the iron is hot, let President Lincoln push on his reinforcements, not forgetting that we have fifty thousand disciplined militia in the Central States that can be made read
Grant's Tactics. We think it may be safely asserted that, since war first became known to mankind, no General ever sacrificed his men so recklessly, so remorselessly, and to so little purpose, as General Grant. He started from his camp on the North side of the Rappahannock, little more than a month ago, with 130,000 men. He has been reinforced, according to the statements of his friends, by more than 80,000 since that time, viz.: Stanton says he sent him 25,000 veterans after the battle of the 12th May; Butler has sent him 20,000, and prisoners say he has received 40,000 from Ohio and other sources, making a total of 85,000. Yet his army, at this day, in the opinion of those best qualified to judge, does not greatly exceed 100,000 men, and is, certainly, greatly inferior in numbers to what it was when he started on his crusade. He lost 75,000 in Spotsylvania, and his losses in Hanover cannot have fallen very far short of 25,000.--Thus he has sacrificed 100,000 men, the flower