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The Daily Dispatch: June 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
by Fitzhugh Lee but with the memory of the mendacious dispatches from Lee, Senior, in relation to his victories over Grant between the Wilderness and Cold Harbor, we shall take the liberty of doubting this piece of rebel news until we hear further. Petersburg is a very important place. It had a population in 1860 of twenty thousand. It possesses extensive facilities for business. Vessels of one hundred tons burden can go to its wharves up the Appomattox, and those of large size to Waltham's landing, six miles below. The larger vessels engaged in the Petersburg trade usually discharged their cargoes at City Point. The town is well built, and contains about a dozen churches. It has also three or four banks, several cotton and woolen factories, three rope walks, two iron furnaces and numerous mills of various kinds. The limits of the borough include the decayed village of Blanford, in Prince George county, which was once, in some respects, superior even to Petersburg itself