Today in the Petersburg Campaign: July 17, 1864

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.

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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