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The Daily Dispatch: June 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
is proper to add that we place very little confidence in stories brought by couriers. There was no information at headquarters last night from this or any other point. The only additional report we have is connected with the fight on Thursday. It is stated that our forces drove the enemy four miles, when, their ammunition giving out, they were themselves driven precisely the same distance. Raid on the Danville railroad. The Yankee cavalry force sent out from Grant's army, under Spear, Kautz, and Wilson, after destroying the Petersburg and Weldon railroad, near Reams's Station, assailed the Southside railroad, at Ford's Despot, about twenty miles from Petersburg which they burnt, together with two locomotives and sixteen burthen cars, laden with stores, &c, belonging to the Norfolk and Petersburg railroad. They then proceeded on and struck the Richmond and Danville Railroad at Burkesville Junction, where the road intersects with the Southside railroad, fifty- three miles