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The Daily Dispatch: July 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
His reasons for this contraction are not known with certainly. His idea of circumvallating the city, so as to include the Weldon, Southside, and Danville Railroads, has been completely exploded by the recent disastrous termination of his grand Wilson raid; but had that proved a success it would have required at least 1,250,000 men to have securely guarded a line extended to such a length. Again, the point to which he had extended his left offered such a tempting bait to the ever vigilant Mahone that it had been twice flanked, and a large number of prisoners gathered into the Confederate net, to say' nothing of the many which fell to rise no more in the battle-field. It is said, too, by persons who know the country, that in that particular section there is always a great scarcity of water, but since the present protracted drouth it has been next to impossibility to procure this article, so indispensable to the health and comfort of an army. Prisoners taken confirm this, and say th
The Daily Dispatch: July 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ht, south of Petersburg, and moving to the north side of the Appomattox, towards Bermuda Hundred. This, however, is not true. They enemy have retired some mile or so on our front, on the right, but have not left, though there is some move on hand, as immense clouds of dust in this direction all day have indicated. Scouts report great stir in the Yankee camps. Prisoners recently captured say that the 19th corps, numbering 30,000, has recently reinforced Grant. It is not true that Mahone lost any Floridians or Alabamans in the fight at Reams's Station, or indeed any prisoners. There is nothing doing to-day beyond occasional shelling by the enemy. Yankee papers of the 29th admit a reverse to Sherman, and a loss of 3,000 in McPherson's and 500 in another corps. [Second Dispatch.] Petersburg, July 4, 2 P M. --The enemy is still in front at all points of the old lines, though doubtless some of their forces have been sent away, probably to the north side of