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The Daily Dispatch: June 16, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
es busily employed for several days past in throwing up breast works to the west, facing Richmond. These works extend for a distance of four or five miles, and are a few miles east of Malvern Hill. They are probably intended as a blind to cover Grant's real purpose and destination. We have nothing further from Sheridan's gang of raiders, save a report, seemingly well authenticated, that they have crossed the Pamunkey at Piping Tree Ferry, and Stone to look for Grant. The pressure of Hampton's cavalry was more than they could stand, and the "most beneficial expedition of the war," alluded to by the Northern papers, has probably been given up. The enemy's abandoned fortifications in Hanover. When the enemy crossed the Pamunkey at Hanover Town and New Castle Ferry, it was supposed that they meditated an advance upon Richmond by the Meadow Bridges, and consequently fortifications were thrown up by our troops on the south of Potatomay creek, to intercept such a movement; b