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The Daily Dispatch: July 7, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
lse. From Petersburg. We learn from persons who left Petersburg last evening, that beyond the usual picket firing and occasional cannonading, no event of importance transpired yesterday. There is now no doubt that Grant has contracted his lines some six or seven miles, by the withdrawal of his force from the vicinity of Reams's station, on the Weldon Railroad. It was probably the intention of the enemy to have held this position. On the night of the 30th ult., Generals Wright and Sheridan, and other officers of the Yankee army, visited the point, surveyed the ground, and had actually marked off a line for the construction of earthworks, when certain movements on our part caused them to retire very unexpectedly and unceremoniously. The project was thus abandoned. It is known that Grant's army confronting Petersburg has been reduced by the withdrawal of troops for other quarters, and speculation is rife as to the points to which they have been sent. The general impressi