Try 7 days of FREE access to billions of articles

Start Free Trial

We found your results!

Page 1

Boston Post in Boston, Massachusetts

We have 4,454,244 pages in Massachusetts

View this page and access billions of articles with a 7-day free trial.

Start Free Trial

This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!

Start Free Trial

Cancel anytime, risk free

Not what you were looking for? Search our billions of articles

Advanced Search

Articles on This Page

This newspaper page contains 5 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.

Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

May 10, 1864

Page

1

Grand Union Army Moves Against Richmond and Lee

The piece details the Union push toward Richmond with reports of Lee’s retreat and Grant’s victory, notes on James River operations, and planned cavalry feints under Generals Kautz and West. It discusses logistics, defences around Richmond, and the strategic aim to isolate the rebel capital while praising union officers and soldiers.

Lee Grant Richmond the James James River Butler Richmond Enquirer Virginia Union South York River Hampton Roads Meade Steain A. V. Kautz Suffolk Hickford Weldon Petersburg North Carolina Kautz Buat Jeff Davis Yorktown Col. West West Colonel West Chickahominy Bottom’s Bridge White House Vance Tenth Eighteenth Mount Washington Sassacus Commodore Perry Commodore Barnes Stepping Stones Poppy General Putnam Zonave Cohasset Young America Hydrangia Rose Naval Brigade Charles K. Graham Charles Chamberlain Foster Reno Charles McCormick Tenth Corps James Eighteenth Corps Monroe Richmond-ward Noah Old Dominion Graham Wilson’s Wharf Wild Fort Powhatan City Point New York Mulford Hink Fort Darling Drury’s Bluff William H. Rusgell Colorado Silver Mountain Tenth Legion Livingston County You Bet American Eagle Minnehaha Illinois Phalanx Clear Creek County Lyon Gulch West Branch Bay State Company Mesers Dupee, Beck & Sayles Spencer, Vila & CO Head & Perkins T. J. Lee & CO

Boston Commerce Hope Fueled by New Steamship Route

The article urges Boston to burnish prospects by expanding trade, touting a new Liverpool steamship line and improved harbor facilities. It contrasts Boston and New York, praising Boston wharves Lewis Commercial Central Long India for storage and docking, and proposes a street railway to connect freight stations.

Boston Long Wharf Erie Custom House New York Europe Chapin Great Britain London Mersey Thames Southampton Liverpool United States West Lewis Commercial Central Long India

Wilderness Tavern Battlefield Dispatch May 1864

Special correspondence reports a major Civil War maneuver across Ely's Ford and Germania Ford with Hancock and Warren advancing toward Mine Run, Griffin's line near the Old Turnpike, and Grant Meade and Sheridan coordinating to counter Lee. Charles Wilson of Franklin Mass. is noted as the first casualty.

New York Tribune Wilderness Tavern Wilderness Gregg Ely’s Ford Wilson Lateilpatrick Germania Ford Hancock Warren Chancellorsville Mine Run Sedgwick 6Th Sheridan Rhodes Ewell Meade Stuart Hamilton Grant Culpeper Gen. Meade Parker’s Tavern Lee Griffin Parker Rapidan Burnside Germania Butler Richmond City Point James River Wildermss Charles Wilson Franklin Mass Co. I Jos. Hayes Geesenes 18Th Msssachusetts Pennsylvania Col Hayes Ayer Col. Hayes 18Th Massachusetts

Sketch of General Webb deaths and military career

Brigadier General Alexander Stuart Webb, son of James Watson Webb, born in this city, entered West Point in 1851 and graduated 1855. He served in the Fourth and Second Artillery, taught mathematics at West Point, fought at Bull Run and during the Peninsula and Fredericksburg campaigns, earned brevet ranks, and led brigades at Gettysburg Bristoe and Mine Run campaigns before joining Meade's reorganized army under Hancock.

Alexander Hays New York Herald Pittsburg United States Military Academy West Point Hancock Pleasanton Fourth United States Infantry Resaca de la Palma Palo Alto Lane Attlixco Sequalutplan United States Army Venango County Hays Sixty Pennsylvania Infantry United States Sixteenth Regular Infantry Army of the Potomac Kearny Third Heintzelman Seven Pines Fair Oaks Glendale Malvern Hill Maryland Fredericksburg Chancellorsville Second Gettysburg Warren Auburn Bristoe Station Mine Run Birney Webb Alexander Stuart Webb James Watson Webb Brazil Fourth Artillery Bull Run Congress United States Infantry Harrow Meade Gibbon

James River feint and Mine Run overviews from Virginia front

Correspondence describes the James River feint advancing toward Yorktown West Point and White House to mislead the rebels who move toward Bottoms Bridge. It notes Meade’s army facing Lee after crossing the Rapidan with heavy fighting near Mine Run and reports losses and tactical reflections on battlefield conditions.

N. Y Ciry Point James River Beauregard Lee Yorktown Gloucester West Point Pamunkey Mattapony Williamsburg Richmond White House Ger. Dix Tenth Eighteenth Corps Bottom Keyes City Point Bottom’s

Also Mentioned on This Page

Boston Post Boston Press and Post Boston Statesman Weekly Post United of Emg Beals, Greene & C0 Congress Street State Senate Atlantic Albany Alex. Hayes Gen. Hayes 2D Corps Wadsworth Hull Ironciads Samuel P. Lee Malvern Onondaga Tecumseh Canonicus Atlanta Eutaw Mackinaw Hunchback Osceola Commodore Morris Delaware Dawn Shawsheen Putnam U. S R. Casks Madeira de Boo Oetaves R. Casks Burgundy Doe Wellington & Cox Broad Street Her Majesty Champagne Royal Wine England Olympus Messrs. DE Venoge & Co Epernay France Seenry Ward Pear Wall Harles Heidsieck Champagne Agency Henry Atkins & CO South Market Chatham Streets Pannee Cooley Central Wharf David Jones Havana Dpsignio Korte DE America Recreo Swaaru, Ka Ara Wilder Concha Media Regalia Opera Millar Desira Estabrook Commercial Street Stalia Samure Cochran Bostom Abe London Porter &c Wee Hindall Street Promas W. Momekeow Jones I. Rosinson GEO. T. Waterm & CO Andrew Murray St. Louis GEO. T. Waterman & CO Wavana Nelson & Shnitzer's Robinson & Lord Islw Pyeeer Fisher & CO DR. DE Percy Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Edivnburgh Lock Hospital Faculte de Medicine de Paris Harrison Avenue Essex Street Whipple Ballard Vale Superior Cast Steel Files Necr Eating Co Peoaton Fabris Wm. P. Pierce Whipple File Manf. Co Youra, &c. Encer Repeating Rifle CO John H. Welles Novelty Lron Works Wple File Manufacturing CO James H. van Riper Victor Dem. Upham Cambridgeport Whipple File Manufacturing Co Vman Kinsley Morgan Iron Works Whip Manufacturing CO X. Son Foreman Finishing Shop Kilby St Cor Central Ste Beekman St NYE & Sewall Court Street Allan Ha. Nye, Bate J. F. Bumsteld & Co John L. Sewall Epts My Horace Tobey Reynolds & CO WE State Thes Gue & Tappan THE Republic State Street Inter States Nished Promptly Brewster SWEET NO. & Union Building Joseph W. Davis Gay Fiscalx U. S. Securities Ee’ Rik WM. F. Davis Boston Brokers’ Board Penal Commission Mys Epim Chas. A. Vialle David Snow Capital the Granite ARD Philadelphia Quartermaster’s UU. & Quartermaster’s and Ordnance Black Hawk Gold Mining Company Bobtail Gregory. &c Lodes Gilpil Co Bach F. BH. Judd W. L. Lee Anthony Arnoux Geo. Bliss, Jr O. W. Child J.E. Williams J. Hall Pleasants Baltimore Leonard Swett Washington Carlos Pierce F. H Judd Walter E. Lawton D. Littlejoan John 8 Sherbrooke Gold Mining Company Nova Scotia Berman Funke Herman Funke Herman Stursberg Frederick Schumacher Henry A. Tilden James 8. Whitney Frank J. Pratt Frederick Schumacheer Cliff Street BAY State Gold Mining Company OF Colorado Trustees Samuel L. Mitchell John Roperts John G. Roberts & Son Robert M. Stratton Lemuel Bangs J Wan Stratton Novelty James Beck Dupee, Beck & Sayles Charles D. Head Candler John W. Candleothear Wiliam Heywood, Esq Boston _vees Platt, Gerard & Buckle Wakely & Read Ent Excelsior Mining Co J. Whetherbee, Jr Phentx New England Mining Co J. Wetherbee, Jr Phoenix Building Massachusetts Company Roxbury Warren Street Charles Rollins James T. Eldredge Tofstate Grifen Street Church of the Advent John P. Tarbell Chas. F. Shummin Beacon Street Jas.h. Rand City Exchange Newport Vernon Robert E. Arthorp Devonshire Street Jamaica Plains A. B. Ae Il Merchants‘ Exchange Revere House Bull— Finch Street Boston Society of History Eubeng Berkely St A. B. Warren Il Merchants’ Exchange Main Street Charlestown Orse A. H. Allen Ok Square P. Lee Bostes Bank Eastern Avenue Sargent’s Wharf Fowler & CO Horace Gray Nonontum Hill Newton M. A. Gemma Box W. D. Briggs Er Suing Wales R. Stockbridge Katahdin Iron Works Mitchell Granite Co Renfrew Gold Mining & Crushing Co Devonshire Gold Co Julius A. Palmer, Jr Jclere Franklin Street Edward G. Tileston & CO Apts Great Western Mining Company Eastern H. W. Nelson James M. Cooper Sec'y and Treas Great Western Mining Co Salem Mining Company Michigan Horace Farrington Federal Street John C. Rounds Articles of Association Adison Mining Company Madison Mining A City Change Building Keweenaw and Cliff Aeroratio Bigelow Winthrop Mining CO W. Nelson TudFim OFICE Ee Ee Adts Treasurer's Co H.W. Nelson Tu&Fim Everett Mining Company Luther W. Clarke Anold Mining Company Arnold Mining Company E. J. Hulbert W. F. Harding Bear Valley Coal CO Board of Trade, Merchants’ Exchange Summit Branch Railroad Co Ned B. Fowle, Jr James H. Real Andrew J. Loud Onashier Alé Second National Bank OF Boston Secretary OF the Treasury Second National Bank James H. Beal Jet Savings Institutions Gilbert Williams Merchants’ Bank Building Government Securities Wm.p.ler Brokers’ Board Walker & Co.’s Nurseries Walker & CO Roxbury, Mass City OF WAR Department Ward Essex Kingston Street Exchange Paris Euit J. B Thayer & Bey Union Bulging Putnam Clothes Canada Aus Putnem Manufacturing Company Platt Street Axd AHROP Senay WiLperngss Batrix Frevo Getty Orange Plank Road Peninsula the Rapidan Eade Ely Jackson Stonewall” Jackson South Mountain Antietam Hooker Enem Jen Wee Braddock
Search Courier

Search the Boston Post Today with a Free Trial

We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.

Not Finding What You Were Looking for on This Page of The Boston Post?

People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!

Looking Courier

Browse Newspapers

You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!

By Location

By Location

Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.

Browse by Location
By Date

By Date

Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.

Browse by Date
By Publication

By Publication

Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.

Browse by Publication