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The Daily Dispatch: June 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
-clads. The effect will be to bar the farther progress of the Yankee fleet in this director. Thursday's operations near Petersburg. We received last night full particulars of the fighting on Thursday in the vicinity of Petersburg. The enemy opened on our field with heavy guns at an early hour in the marking, on the City Point road, and were to with spirit. This was kept for about an hour, neither side gaining any material advantage. In the afternoon a assault was made upon Gen. Hoke's where division occupied entrenchments which had been hastily thrown up Wednesday night, in a position facing nine to twelve inclusive. The enemy gathers up to three lines of battle, and makes three charges, but were each time reported with heavy loss. On our right, in the vicinity of Col. Avery's farm, heavy firing continued during the portion of the day, but late in the afternoon it became quite severe, the enemy attempting to carry out works by assault. This portion of the