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The Daily Dispatch: September 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
se carried down the river are men whose term of service has expired. The Yankees, always up to some new project, have constructed a moveable battery by mounting a fifteen-inch mortar on a railroad car, which is occasionally run up on the City Point road and discharged at the city of Petersburg. It makes a good deal of noise and serves to amuse the enemy, but has thus far done no harm. The Express learns that the Yankees are still "pegging away" on the canal across the peninsula at Dutch Gap. The width of the land at this point is one hundred and eighteen yards. The gauge of the canal is fifty feet in width, and in depth some fifteen or twenty feet below high water mark. The Yankees are protected in their work by strong breastworks. There is a fall of four inches in the seven miles of water winding around the peninsula, and with the distance diminished to one hundred and eighteen yards, it is estimated that when the canal is finished, (if it is ever allowed,) the rate of th