Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: May 9, 1864., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Richmond (Virginia, United States) or search for Richmond (Virginia, United States) in all documents.

Your search returned 4 results in 2 document sections:

The Daily Dispatch: May 9, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ce repulsed. Owing to the difficulty in transmitting intelligence from the Southside during Friday and Saturday a number of extraordinary rumors were in circulation relative to affairs in that quarter. The rumors relative to the strength of the enemy's force were greatly exaggerated. The transports which had arrived at City Point up to Friday were one hundred and twenty-one in number. Not more than half of these had troops aboard, and the number of fighting men on the other side of James river is probably not more than 20,000. There is a good harbor at Port Walthall and on Friday the enemy landed there and proceeded to a point on the Port Walthall Railroad known as the Port Walthall Junction, five miles from Petersburg and two miles from Swift Creek bridge. At five o'clock two brigades of the enemy, which moved out from Bermuda Hundreds some time during Thursday night, and were slowly and cautiously advancing during the day yesterday, attempted to cross the field of Mrs. Howl
The Daily Dispatch: May 9, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ence is testing once more the courage and constancy of this community, so often and so sorely tried. Of the force that is brought against this city via the James river, under General Smith, we do not know enough to conjecture its numbers. Frightened Rumor has made it large enough, God knows. Its main strategy appears to be td all the intelligence we have touching the important pending campaign. It will be seen that another disaster is added for the discomfiture of the enemy on the James river. We announced on Saturday the "handsome affair" of the blowing up of one of his boats by a torpedo, and the "sending without notice to their long account" (a fo surrender, and the boat being set on fire by a shot the wounded perished in her. These events prove that the enemy is not to be allowed the free navigation of James river. They do more — they seriously affect the enemy. They will check his plans of invasion and outrage by water. The engineers and others in this work deserve th