NEW YORK HERALD, May 19, 1864

• Drewry’s Bluff Virginia
• General Benjamin Butler

The front page features a Civil War map headed: "General Butler's Operations. The Rebel Defences at Drury's Bluff...". Plus the first column has a nice stack of heads including: "BUTLER ! " "Battle of Palmer's Creek" "A Fierce & Sanguinary Battle" "Beauregard Attacks Butler in a Dense Fog" "Valiant Conflict Against a Vastly Superior Force" and more.
Included is the single sheet "Supplement".
Eight pages, great condition.

Background: Fought from May 12–16, 1864, as part of the Bermuda Hundred Campaign, the land Battle of Drewry’s Bluff was a decisive Confederate victory that neutralized a major threat to Richmond during Ulysses S. Grant's spring offensive. Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler advanced his 30,000-man Army of the James toward the capital's outer defenses at Drewry's Bluff to sever Confederate rail links, but his cautious delay enabled Confederate Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard to mass 18,000 troops and launch a fierce counterattack in a dense morning fog on May 16. Despite Union troops utilizing novel telegraph wire entanglements to slow the assault, Beauregard smashed the Union right flank, inflicting over 4,100 casualties and forcing Butler to order a complete retreat to the Bermuda Hundred peninsula. By entrenching across the narrow peninsula neck, Beauregard trapped Butler's army "as if in a bottle strongly corked," effectively removing 30,000 Union troops from the strategic equation and freeing up critical Confederate reinforcements for Robert E. Lee's defense at Cold Harbor and Petersburg.