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The Daily Dispatch: July 7, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
The War News. We have to record this morning more evidences of the infernal nature of the foe now making war upon us. For a day or two past dense volumes of smoke have been seen on the north side of James river, below Richmond, and no little curiosity has been manifested to ascertain the cause of the conflagration. We learn that on Tuesday the Yankees burned every building on the lower farm of Curl's Neck, owned by Major Allen, and by the same method destroyed a portion of his wheat crop. On the farm of Maj. Gen. Pickett, on Turkey Island, they have burned all the building but the dwelling and a small brick house in the yard, as also the crop of wheat. These buildings were probably spared for the accommodation of Yankee officers, who doubtless have established their headquarters therein.--When they have no freshed use for them, they will not hesitate to apply the torch to them also. Parties engaged in cutting the wheat on the farms bordering on the river, on Tuesday, were sh