REBEL NEWS: Affairs in Front of Petersburgh; Rebel Jubilation Over the Maryland Raid (7/18/1864)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 7/18/1864

[Homer_J_Simpson]

We have received Richmond papers of the 14th inst., from which we make the following extracts, which show among other things the view taken and the hopes excited by the late Maryland raid at Richmond:

AROUND PETERSBURGH.

From the Richmond Dispatch, July 14.

In front of Petersburgh, yesterday, matters continued comparatively quiet. Nothing occurred to interrupt the prevailing monotony beyond some picket firing and the occasional boom of a heavy gun. The impression is very general that the enemy is withdrawing his troops, and, indeed, it is a pretty well ascertained fact that one corps of the Yankee army has already taken its departure. Coupled with this we have a report from an authentic source that a large number of transports have recently passed down the James River. The accounts in the Northern papers inform us that a most intense excitement prevails in Maryland and Pennsylvania, in consequence of a "rebel" invasion, and it would not be at all surprising to learn that LINCOLN had peremptorily ordered GRANT to Washington, to assure his own safety on Northern soil. While this is mere speculation, there is no doubt some mysterious movement going on in GRANT's army, the nature of which will in a few days be revealed.

For a few nights past large fires have been seen on the North side of James River, below Richmond. It is probable that the Yankees are completing the destruction of the wheat crop and burning a farmhouse here and there, by way of gratifying their fiendish malice.

It is stated that the enemy, so far from removing the obstructions in the river at Trent's Reach, are increasing them by sinking stones and driving piles. It may be that they apprehend the approach of a fleet of Confederate rams,

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Rebel News: Affairs in Front of Petersburgh – 2-4
Gen. Grant’s Army: The Army of the Potomac– 4
From Sherman’s Army: Late from Chattahoochee – 4-5
The Engagement Before Washington as Viewed by a Soldier – 5
The Rebels Moving Down Loudon Valley-They are Moving on the Double Quick – 5-6
Popular Rifle Practice – 6
The Press Correspondents – 6
An Arm Rambler – 6
The Proscribed Correspondents – 6
War Writers – 6
News from Washington – 6
Richmond – 6-7
War and Chivalry – 7
America Abroad – 7
Sound Words from a Rebel – 7
For the Soldiers – 7
The Rebel Press on the Raid – 7
The Christian Commission: Portsmouth Hospitals – 7-8
Soldiers Died in Hospital – 8
Gen. Franklin at Portland – 8
Amusements – 8
From Havana: Maximillian and the Liberal Chiefs – 8
Pursuit of the Florida – 8
Important Wool Suit – 8
The Blockade Running Trade at Nassau – 8