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The Daily Dispatch: July 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Yankee correspondents we are unable to say. Persons from Prince George say that he is massing his troops around City Point, and that large bodies of his soldiers have recently been moved to that point. His headquarters are also there. It is probable that these movements may have been those of Hancock's and Wright's corps, on their way to embark to Washington; or it may be that Grant is getting his troops in position to be thrown suddenly across the river and precipitated on our lines in Chesterfield. Unfortunately for this scheme, he will find the same General and troops in front of him which he now finds at Petersburg. On Wednesday the Yankee batteries Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 5, and a battery on Hare's farm, opened upon our position on this side of the Appomattox and shelled for awhile without doing anybody any harm. In Petersburg yesterday all was quiet, there being no shelling. A rumor was current, which was not believed, that the enemy had abandoned his entrenchments on the left of