Show liesure resume of the six days operations 1 about wilderness dispa tebes to the chicago times 1 I washington GroN may 11 1864 your special c learn in ing that liis his accounts of last weeks battles battles g did not got get through 11 here solids sends under date of may 0 rp P af M the following 0 summary the battle of thursday day last ath may fought 0 partially in the wildea ness near cl chancellorsville Chancel 1 ancell lorville urville four miles aiom the rapidan and ten east of orange an 7 c cobit house by two corps of our army was what might be justly termed a drawn battle neither side gained a anything n in ground or position that t they 11 ey did not lose so that at daik on T thursday I 1 both armies were in the same line of battle that opened on oil each cacti other in the morning on friday morning lee opened the attack instead of grant but was handsomely foiled during all the forenoon but during tile the afternoon the enemy 1 gained brained some advantage 0 but not of enough ellough importance except on the right for a bhart time to cause any fear A temporary success over tile the extreme right of tile the sixth corps was repulsed b by y the desperate fighting 0 of flights division friday night showed that we held considerable of tile the line of battle of the themo coining mo ining but it was not doubted as lee seemed to remain in position as late as nine of that night but that saturday would witness another battle on saturday morning grant di did not attack and the rebel line on oil our left seemed weaker but in the afternoon hill appealed in heavy force on oil our right as if intending to turn it b ant ut seeing a that if he did so it would be at a gibat risk lie he fought 0 briefly and ic tired it then b became came evident that lee had commenced to move eastward in a semicircle the right 0 end of which would have brought him up ill near the ny river liver and give hini him not only the advantage 0 c of a railroad to richmond but one of the very best positions for fior another battle that could be well selected the battles of the wilderness were fought 0 most of tile the time in the woods where officers ceis could not lide ide i their horbes hoi bes nor ahei e any artillery could be used it even excelled the fight in tile the woods at the first battle of pittsburg landing oil 0 u sunday our movement commenced and with the exception that leo lee had gained sonic some time with ewells ewella corps a little ahead both armies were moving almost parallel our army moving in a straight line toward nia w while 11 i ae lees leea maichel mai clied toward our left tile the result was that on saturday afternoon warren on oil our left and ewell on lees right had a very severe skirmish both corps fighting closely and stubbornly aly it was too late however fl for or it to merge into a general battle thou though 0 b between the tw two 0 corps very liard hard fighting occurred monday morning i n r both armies faced each cacti other but no not t near enough for a general ba battle atle unless one or the other advanced ewell took possession of a t ridge at the northeast of spottsyl I 1 vala vania and hancock attacked hini him this was about 3 in the afternoon in the forenoon sharpshooters were rapidly firing at our artillery men who had been brought up tip for action for the first time since grant emerged from the wilderness and it was during duriel this that gen joll jolin sedgwick was shot by a rebel sharpshooter ile he was killed instantly in the alie meantime hancock and E ewell well had a teri ible musketry fight lasting until after dark birneys birness Bir division on the right gibsons gibbons Gib sons in tile the center and bartons on oil the loft left stood the most furious I 1 of tile the fire affre the enemy maintained their ground on monda monday night contending for every inch but 0 on tuesday E ewell vell without renewing the battle fell baiev back whirl which gave us Spottsyl Spott sylvani a village and tile the coin coill mand of tile the div liver po 0 o on oil tile the left and also prevented E aiice ce from I 1 inachin eael linx etile ethe and richmond kail idail road on oil tuesday was very heavy fighting fl biting near the po liver where ono olle column of leed army had i cheated aci across oss this was tile fi first direct alno move southward that tile the enemy had made after leaving tile the wilderness aa lie had continued to advance until af ter the battle of monday afternoon in in an adly dai action but waln when 1 ho abandoned Spott sylvania sylv nia lee reheat at ed on po river in a direct line with tile the rebel capital bi but 45 miles dis distant tant it is believed that yesterdays figh fighting fightlin tin was confined principally to ai tillery with which great exe execution was done donel passengers geis from fredericksburg state that leo lee was entirely across tho vo po river while cOn stilled the heavy cannonading canno of yester day afeei noon into another giedt battle tile the western troops suffered buffered in all the battles the ath michigan and and on one wisconsin ill regiment lost heavily there ar esome in thursday s j and fridays fight who are arc very slightly wounded several bundled havo aniced here most of whom are able to walk to the hospitals and I 1 laig laigo a i g o numbers are about the sti sheets acts smoking and drinking 0 the provost malsh marshal 11 lias has arrested most of them and they are being sent back to their I 1 0 |