The newspaper production staff is off for the holiday so there will be no New York Times edition for July 5.
The Great Battles: Our Special Telegrams from the Battle Field to 10 A.M. Yesterday – 2-6
From New-Orleans: A Rumor of the Capture of Port Hudson – 7
Gen. Rosecrans’ Advance: The Entrance of Our Army into Tullahoma – 7
The Siege of Vicksburgh: Activity of the Rebel Garrison – 7-8
Relative Mortality of White and Black Soldiers – 8
News from Washington: War Gazette – 8
Editorial: The Campaign in Pennsylvania – 8-9
Editorial: Bragg’s Retreat from Tullahoma – 9
Editorial: The Military Rights of Colored Troops – 9
Our Volunteer Militia – 9
Editorial: “Odious Tyranny” and Eye-Opening – 9
The sentence of the day: “ The battle yesterday was sanguinary in the extreme.”
I cannot imagine any newspaper using such language today. It paints (with blood) quite the image of the fields.
General Sickles leg has to be the most famous body part in US military history. There appears to be an indication of how he advanced his corps to the Peach Orchard as an article notes there is a two sides of a triangle bulge in the Union deployment.