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.
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the James
James River
Butler
Richmond Enquirer
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Meade
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A. V. Kautz
Suffolk
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Weldon
Petersburg
North Carolina
Kautz
Buat
Jeff Davis
Yorktown
Col. West
West
Colonel West
Chickahominy
Bottom’s Bridge
White House
Vance
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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.
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West
Lewis
Commercial
Central
Long
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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.
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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.
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New York Herald
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Resaca de la Palma
Palo Alto
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Attlixco
Sequalutplan
United States Army
Venango County
Hays
Sixty
Pennsylvania Infantry
United States
Sixteenth
Regular Infantry
Army of the Potomac
Kearny
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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.
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Ger. Dix
Tenth
Eighteenth Corps
Bottom
Keyes
City Point
Bottom’s
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