July 17, 1864
Skirmish at Herring Creek, near Harrison’s Landing, VA, the Richmond, VA Campaign, which is near the vicinity that Maj. Gen. George McClellan, USA, retreated to after his defeat at the gates of Richmond, VA, during his Peninsula Campaign in 1862.
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Mentions of This Date at The Siege of Petersburg Online:
- DI: July 1864 John D. Vautier (88th PA) Diary Entries
- ITINERARY: 85th Pennsylvania
- NP: July 18, 1864 Richmond Examiner: Richmond City Intelligence, July 16-17
- NP: July 18, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The War News, July 16-17
- NP: July 19, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The War News, July 9-18
- NP: July 21, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The War News, July 17-20 Plus Early’s Maryland Raid
- NP: July 24, 1864 Sunday Mercury (New York): 16th NYHA at Fort Magruder
- NP: July 24, 1864 Sunday Mercury (New York): 5th NY Veteran Remains Separated at the Siege of Petersburg
- NP: July 28, 1864 Windham County Transcript: 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery in the Trenches
- NP: July 30, 1864 Cape Ann Light and Gloucester Telegraph: 23rd MA, Mid-July 1864
- NP: August 2, 1864 Batavia (NY) Republican Advocate: Our Army Before Petersburg
- NP: July 14, 1902 New Orleans Times-Picayune: Donaldsonville Cannoniers at the Siege of Petersburg, Part 5
- NP: May 6, 1908 St. Johnsville NY News: John Reardon Diary (115th NY): June 16-July 17, 1864
- OR XL P1 #86: Reports of Major Samuel McConihe, 93rd NY, June 13-July 31, 1864
- OR XL P1 #101: Report of Captain Edwin B. Dow, 6th ME Btty, June 13-July 31, 1864
- OR XL P1 #114: Report of Major General Gouverneur K. Warren, commanding V/AotP, July 27-30, 1864
- OR XL P1 #126: Report of Major Edward B. Knox, 44th NY, June 12-July 30, 1864
- OR XL P1 #145: Report of Lieutenant James B. Hazelton, Btty E 1st NY Lt Arty, July 11-30, 1864
- OR XL P1 #166: Report of Captain Charles W. White, 4th ME Btty, June 12-July 29, 1864
- OR XL P1 #171: Report of Captain William A. Harn, 3rd NY Btty, June 13-July 31, 1864
- OR XL P1 #173: Report of Captain William B. Rhodes, Btty E 1st RI Lt Arty, June 13-July 29, 1864
- OR XL P1 #175: Reports of Major General Ambrose E. Burnside, commanding IX/AotP, June 12-July 30, 1864
- OR XL P1 #190: Report of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Pleasants, 48th PA, June 25-July 30, 1864
- OR XL P1 #201. Report of Colonel Samuel Harriman, 37th WI, June 12-July 31, 1864
- OR XL P1 #202: Report of Lieutenant Colonel Colwert K. Pier, 38th WI, June 11-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 #295. Diary of the First Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, June 16-July 31, 1864
- OR XL P1 #302: Reports of Major General Bushrod R. Johnson, commanding Johnson/DNCSV, June 16-July 31, 1864
- OR XL P1 #305: Report of Major E. Pliny Bryan, AAG, Johnson/DNCSV, July 14-17, 1864