150 years ago today The New-York Times. devoted its front page to the Battle of Seven Pines. The paper’s battlefield correspondent made the following statement in his report: “The fall of Richmond will take place without another battle.”
The editors hedged their bets a bit in the headline:
Richmond is (pretty much) ours
The main part of the front page was devoted to a “balloon view” of the approaches to the Confederate capital:
Seeing our way clear to victory
Balloon rising over Fair Oaks
