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The Daily Dispatch: June 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
g" and the great movements of Grant: The capture of Petersburg is a very important object in the plan of the campaign. It completely shuts off all access to Richmond by the railroad leading to Welson, Goldsboro' Wilmington, Charleston; and Savannah, with lateral lines running from Charleston to Atlanta, and from Savannah by way of Macon to the same city. If Hunter and Crook have captured Lynchburg, which is their object, no railroad communication with Richmond remains but the road to Danville. Sheridan is probably operating upon that line. There is a report in the Richmond papers of the defeat of that gallant officer 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