150 Years Ago Today at Petersburg: June 24, 1864

June 24, 1864

Actions at Hare’s Hill, VA, the Richmond (VA) Campaign.

Engagement at Saint Mary’s Church, VA, where Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, USA, is driven off toward the James River with his wagon train of captured supplies, the Richmond (VA) Campaign.

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Mentions of This Date at The Siege of Petersburg Online:

• 150 Years Ago Today at Petersburg: June 24, 1864
• From Arlington to Appomattox: Robert E. Lee’s Civil War Day by Day, 1861-1865 by Charles R. Knight
• BEARSS MAP: Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road, June 20-24, 1864 TOPO
• BEARSS MAP: Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road, June 24, 1864 Map 6
• CLARK NC: 44th North Carolina at the Siege of Petersburg
• DI: June 1864 John D. Vautier (88th PA) Diary Entries
• Petersburg Medals of Honor: Retained Command Despite Severe Wounds
• ITINERARY: 48th North Carolina
• ITINERARY: 85th Pennsylvania
• LT: June 24, 1864 Theodore Lyman
• “Death Were No Terror to His Soul”: Major Edward G. Park of the 35th Massachusetts
• NP: June 23, 1864 Petersburg Daily Express: Local Matters, June 16 and 23, 1864
• NP: June 25, 1864 Richmond Examiner: Kautz and His Raiders
• NP: June 25, 1864 Richmond Examiner: Telegraphic Reports, June 23-24
• NP: June 25, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The War News, June 24
• NP: June 27, 1864 Philadelphia Inquirer: Associated Press Accounts, June 23-24, 1864
• NP: June 27, 1864 Philadelphia Inquirer: Action at Hare’s Hill and Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road, June 23-24, 1864
• NP: June 27, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The Fighting About Petersburg, June 22-24
• NP: June 27, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The War News, June 21-26
• NP: June 28, 1864 Philadelphia Inquirer: From Fort Monroe, June 24-26, 1864
• NP: June 28, 1864 Philadelphia Inquirer: The Siege of Petersburg, June 25-27, 1864
• NP: June 28, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The News from Petersburg, June 23-26
• NP: June 28, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The War News, June 26-27
• NP: June 29, 1864 Philadelphia Inquirer: Gregg’s Cavalry Division at Samaria Church, June 24, 1864
• NP: June 30, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The War News, June 25-29
• NP: July 1, 1864 Richmond Examiner: 2nd VA Cavalry at Trevilian Station and Nance’s Shop
• NP: July 1, 1864 Richmond Examiner: Latest News from the North, June 28
• NP: July 4, 1864 Richmond Examiner: War News, June 30-July 4
• NP: July 9, 1864 Richmond Examiner: Extracts from Northern Papers, June 22-28
• NP: August 12, 1864 The Bedford Inquirer: Gregg’s Cavalry Division at Samaria Church, June 24, 1864
• NP: May 6, 1908 St. Johnsville NY News: John Reardon Diary (115th NY): June 16-July 17, 1864
• NP: February 18, 1925 Potsdam NY Courier and Freeman: Orlando P. Benson Diary, 92nd NY, Part 2
• NP: June 24, 1964 Petersburg Progress-Index: Siege Centennial, Part 16: For Variety—A Defeat
• NT: November 26, 1881 National Tribune: Capture of Fort Harrison – How the Rebels Failed to Retake It
• OR LI P1: Report of Major General W. H. F. Lee, commanding WHF Lee/Cav/ANV, June 23-24, 1864
• OR LI P1: Report of Bvt. Major General Rufus Ingalls, Chief Quartermaster, Union Armies, July 1, 1864 – June 30, 1865
• OR XL P1 #1: Report of Lt Gen U. S. Grant June 13-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 (Broadfoot Sup.) #2: Report of Surg. Roger W. Pease, Cav/AotP, June 19-26, 1864
• OR XL P1 #5: Reports of Major General George G. Meade June 14-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #26: Report of Major James E. Larkin, 5th NH, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #27: Report of Major George Hogg, 2nd NY HA, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #29: Report of Major George W. Scott, 61st NY, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #33: Reports of Lieutenant Colonel George T. Egbert, 183rd PA, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #53: Report of Captain Garrett Nowlan, 116th PA, June 13-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #55: Report of Captain James F. Weaver, 148th PA, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #59: Reports of Major General John Gibbon, commanding 2/II/AotP, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #61: Report of Captain Joseph W. Spaulding, 19th ME, June 13-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #62: Report of Captain James C. Farwell, 1st MN, June 11-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #63: Reports of Major Timothy O’Brien, 152nd NY, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #68: Report of Major John Beattie, 164th NY, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #72: Report of Colonel Thomas A. Smyth, 1st DE, commanding 3/2/II/AotP, June 13-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #78: Reports of Brigadier General P. Regis de Trobriand, commanding 1/3/II/AotP, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #79: Report of Captain Madison M. Cannon, 40th NY, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #86: Reports of Major Samuel McConihe, 93rd NY, June 13-July 31, 1864
• OR XL P1 #88: Reports of Lieutenant Colonel George Zinn, 84th PA, June 12-July 31, 1864
• OR XL P1 #99: Report of Colonel John C. Tidball, 4th NYHA, commanding Arty/II/AotP, June 12-July 1, 1864
• OR XL P1 #101: Report of Captain Edwin B. Dow, 6th ME Btty, June 13-July 31, 1864
• OR XL P1 #102: Report of Captain J. Henry Sleeper, 10th MA Btty, June 13-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #107: Report of Captain John E. Burton, 11th NY Btty, June 12-August 1, 1864
• OR XL P1 #109: Report of Captain R. Bruce Ricketts, Btty F 1st PA Lt Arty, June 12-July 1, 1864
• OR XL P1 #114: Report of Major General Gouverneur K. Warren, commanding V/AotP, July 27-30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #117: Report of Major Mason W. Burt, 22nd MA, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #118: Report of Major James A. Cunningham, 32nd MA, 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 #121: Report of Major Oliver B. Knowles, 21st PA Cav, June 13-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #130: Report of Colonel Richard N. Bowerman, 4th MD, June 13-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #142: Reports of Colonel Charles S. Wainwright, 1st NY Lt Arty, commanding Arty/V/AotP, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #146: Reports of Captain Charles E. Mink, Btty H 1st NY Lt Arty, June 18-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #147: Report of Lieutenant Charles L. Anderson, Btty L 1st NY Lt Arty, June 13-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #152: Report of Brigadier General W. Getty, commanding 2/VI/AotP, June 12-July 9, 1864
• OR XL P1 #153: Report of Brigadier General Frank Wheaton, commanding 1/2/VI/AotP, June 13-July 10, 1864
• OR XL P1 #155: Report of Major Robert Munroe, 139th PA, June 13-July 9, 1864
• OR XL P1 #159: Report of Colonel J. Warren Keifer, 110th OH, commanding 2/3/VI/AotP, June 12-July 6, 1864
• OR XL P1 #162: Report of Lieutenant Colonel Otho H. Binkley, 110th OH, June 13-July 6, 1864
• OR XL P1 #166: Report of Captain Charles W. White, 4th ME Btty, June 12-July 29, 1864
• OR XL P1 #168: Report of Lieutenant Jacob Federhen, Btty A MA Lt Arty, June 12-July 11, 1864
• OR XL P1 #171: Report of Captain William A. Harn, 3rd NY Btty, June 13-July 31, 1864
• OR XL P1 #208: Reports of Captain Alphons Serviere, 46th NY, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #220: Report of Captain Joseph W. B. Wright, 14th MA Btty, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #230: Reports of Brigadier General James H. Wilson, commanding 3/Cav/AotP, June 17-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #231: Reports of Brigadier General John B. McIntosh, commanding 1/3/Cav, June 22-July 2, 1864
• OR XL P1 #232: Report of Major George O. Marcy, 1st CT Cav, June 13-July 24, 1864
• OR XL P1 #235: Report of Lieutenant Colonel George A. Purington, 2nd OH Cav, June 13-July 24, 1864
• OR XL P1 #236: Report of Colonel George H. Chapman, 3rd IN Cav, commanding 2/3/Cav/AotP, June 13-July 12, 1864
• OR XL P1 #238: Report of Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin T. Hutchins, 1st NH Cav, June 22-July 2, 1864
• OR XL P1 #239: Report of Major Edmund M. Pope, 8th NY Cav, June 22-July 2, 1864
• OR XL P1 #240: Report of Lieutenant Colonel Johnson B. Brown, 22nd NY Cav, June 22-July 2, 1864
• OR XL P1 #241: Report of Colonel William Wells, 1st VT Cav, June 22-July 3, 1864
• OR XL P1 #243: Report of Lieutenant Charles L. Fitzhugh, Btty E 4th US Arty, June 22-29, 1864
• OR XL P1 #244: Reports of Colonel Henry L. Abbot, 1st CTHA, commanding Siege Train, June 14-October 31, 1864
• OR XL P1 #245: Report of Brigadier General Godfrey Weitzel, Chief Engineer, Dept of VA and NC, June 1-30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #247: Report of Captain Lemuel B. Norton, Chief Signal Officer, June 1-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #258: Reports of Brigadier General John W. Turner, commanding 2/X/AotJ, June 23-July 1 and July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #265: Reports of Colonel Edgar M. Cullen, 96th NY, commanding 1/1/XVIII/AotJ, June 20-30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #267: Report of Brigadier General Hiram Burnham, commanding 2/1/XVIII/AotJ, June 20-July 1, 1864
• OR XL P1 #270: Reports of Colonel Guy V. Henry, 40th MA, commanding 3/1/XVIII/AotJ, June 15-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #271: Report of Captain James F. Brown, 21st CT, June 13-August 26, 1864
• OR XL P1 #280: Reports of Brigadier General August V. Kautz, commanding Cav/AotJ, June 15-30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #281: Report of Colonel Robert M. West, 5th PA Cav, commanding 1/Cav/AotJ, June 21-30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #283: Report of Captain John M. Willson, 3rd NY Cav, June 21-30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #284: Reports of Colonel Samuel P. Spear, 11th PA Cav, commanding 2/Cav/AotJ, June 15-30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #285: Reports of Major J. Stannard Baker, 1st DC Cav, June 15-30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #293: Reports of General Robert E. Lee, commanding ANV, June 16-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #294: Report of Brigadier General William N. Pendleton, Arty/ANV, June 16-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #295. Diary of the First Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, June 16-July 31, 1864
• OR XL P1 #298: Report of Captain Benjamin L. Farinholt, 53rd VA, June 25, 1864
• OR XL P1 #299: Report of Brigadier General John Bratton, commanding Bratton/Field/First/ANV, June 13-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #306: Report of Major General Robert F. Hoke, commanding Hoke, DNCSV, June 24, 1864
• OR XL P1 #309: Report of Brigadier General Johnson Hagood, Hagood/Hoke/DNCSV, June 16-24, 1864
• OR XL P1 #312: Report of Brigadier General Roger A. Pryor, June 23-24, 1864
• ORN Series 1, Vol. X: Union Telegrams to and from the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, June 1864
• ORN Series 1, Vol. X: Report of Acting Rear-Admiral Samuel P. Lee, June 20-21, 1864
• ORN Series 1, Vol. X: Report of Lieutenant-Commander Charles A. Babcock, U. S. S. Morse, June 20-24, 1864
• ORN Series 1, Vol. X: Report of Commander Enoch G. Parrott, USS Canonicus, June 21, 1864
• SHS Papers: Volume 14: Campaign of 1864 and 1865 by Charles W. Field
• SHS Papers: Volume 19: A Remarkable Victory. Wilson’s Defeat at the Staunton River Bridge in 1864 by Dabney H. Maury et al
• Siege of Petersburg Sampler: A Brief Look Back at June 24, 1864
• The Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road: June 21-24, 1864
• Wilson-Kautz Raid Wikipedia Map: June 22 – July 1, 1864