July 20, 1864
No major events at the Siege of Petersburg today.
Note: All “Today In The Petersburg Campaign” blog entries are used with permission from Ronald A. Mosocco’s Chronological Tracking of the American Civil War per the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion. Order the book HERE.
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Mentions of This Date at The Siege of Petersburg Online:
- DI: July 1864 John D. Vautier (88th PA) Diary Entries
- LT: July 20, 1864 Theodore Lyman
- LT: July 20, 1864: William B. Phillips to Annie Richards
- NP: July 21, 1864 Richmond Examiner: Telegraphic Reports, July 19-20
- NP: July 21, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The War News, July 17-20 Plus Early’s Maryland Raid
- NP: July 22, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The War News, July 18-21
- NP: July 23, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The Situation at Petersburg, July 19-22
- NP: July 23, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The War News, July 18-22
- NP: July 24, 1864 Sunday Mercury (New York): 170th NY from Spotsylvania to Jersualem Plank Road
- NP: July 27, 1864 Richmond Examiner: Telegraphic Reports, July 20-25, 1864
- NP: July 28, 1864 Daily Eastern Argus: Letter from the Army (Skirmishing, Digging, Politics)
- NP: July 30, 1864 Augusta (GA) Daily Constitutionalist: Letter from Cobb’s Legion of Cavalry
- NP: July 30, 1864 Richmond Examiner: Executions and a Promotion in Pickett’s Division, July 1864
- NP: July 14, 1902 New Orleans Times-Picayune: Donaldsonville Cannoniers at the Siege of Petersburg, Part 5
- OR XL P1 #53: Report of Captain Garrett Nowlan, 116th PA, June 13-July 30, 1864
- OR XL P1 #119: Report of Major John D. Lentz, 91st PA, June 13-July 30, 1864
- OR XL P1 #123: Report of Captain Benjamin F. Meservey, 18th MA, June 12-July 20, 1864
- OR XL P1 #166: Report of Captain Charles W. White, 4th ME Btty, June 12-July 29, 1864
- OR XL P1 #182: Reports of Captain Benjamin F. Smiley, 2nd PAHA (Provisional), commanding Mortar Battery, June 26-July 30, 1864
- OR XL P1 #235: Report of Lieutenant Colonel George A. Purington, 2nd OH Cav, June 13-July 24, 1864
- OR XL P1 #302: Reports of Major General Bushrod R. Johnson, commanding Johnson/DNCSV, June 16-July 31, 1864
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