15 APRIL 1865, Page 2

On the 29th and 30th General Grant advanced his whole

left beyond Hatcher's Run in the direction of Weldon, where on the latter day he met with a very determined resistance, and was for a time driven back to the Boydton plank road, but retook in the afternoon the position he had lost in the morning. General Sheridan had been sent on to try and capture Burkesville with his cavalry, and so sever the connection of Lynchburg with Richmond. There, too, however, he is said to have found his vigilant enemy fully prepared. General Lee's defence of Richmond, even if it does not last much longer, will certainly rank amongst the most wonderful achievements of military watchfulness.