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The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
eafter to get up these "official bulletins" The terrible fighting of the 16th, 17th and 18th of June has developed the real strength of the enemy's position at Petersburg. It is evident that Gen. Grant is butting his head there against a stone wall, with about the same results that usually attend such a performance. It is questionable, too, whether, after all, it would not have been better for Gen. Grant to have moved on Richmond from Harrison's Landing, when his army was there on the 15th, by way of Malvern Hill and the Charles City road, rather than have crossed the James river at all. True, the whole strength of the Confederate army would have been in his path, and a terrible battle would have taken place, but the battle could not have been more sanguinary, nor attended with greater loss than have been the actions before Petersburg. Gen Grant must meet and defeat the Confederate army somewhere before he can take Richmond; and he would have had a better opportunity to do tha
The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
, there has been very little musketry firing for the past two days. Yesterday evening the enemy attempted to erect a battery in front of Gen. Cleburne's lines it was supposed with the intention of concealing some demonstration, when our artillery opened on them, which was responded to very vigorously by them, and there has been constant shelling, with slight intermission, along the whole line up to 8 o'clock this morning. Late Cincinnati papers say that during the late skirmishing on the 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th ult., they lost 4,500, as shown by the official medical records at Chattanooga. [Third Dispatch.] Marietta, July 2. --Nothing new to-day. The usual skirmishing has taken place. A Sergeant and two privates came in this morning from the Yankee lines. Their terms of service had expired, but owing to military necessity they were not permitted to leave. They represent the army as being much dispirited and averse to prolonging hostilities. Many men whose term