NEW YORK HERALD, Aug. 21, 1864  Among the front page column heads of the Civil War are: "GRANT" "Rebel Troops Ordered to the Valley Retained Near Richmond" "SHERIDAN" "Fighting Along the Shenandoah River & at Bunker Hill" "Sheridan Awaiting the Rebel Attack" "STANTON" "Repulse of the Enemy by the Tenth Corps..." "Serious Losses of the Rebels" and more. 
Eight pages, very nice condition.

Background: The August 21, 1864, edition of the New York Herald captures the Union military apparatus at a critical strategic inflection point, documenting the synchronized pressure of the Overland Campaign and the Shenandoah Valley Campaign. At this moment, General Ulysses S. Grant was engaged in the grueling Siege of Petersburg, intentionally pinning Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia to the Richmond-Petersburg line to prevent them from reinforcing other fronts. The headlines regarding "Rebel Troops Retained" highlight the success of Grant’s "Deep Bottom" maneuvers, which forced Lee to keep his dwindling reserves near the capital. Simultaneously, the reports on General Philip Sheridan at Bunker Hill and the Shenandoah River signal the beginning of a scorched-earth policy designed to permanently eliminate the Valley as a Confederate supply source and a "back door" for invading the North. These events, overseen by Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, were politically fraught; with the 1864 Presidential election looming, the Union’s ability to prove they were finally "repulsing the enemy" and inflicting "serious losses" was essential to maintaining Northern morale and securing Abraham Lincoln’s second term.