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The Daily Dispatch: June 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], Operations around Petersburg. (search)
Operations around Petersburg. The Petersburg Express,of yesterday, has the following account of the operations around the city the day before. Yesterday morning early that same old 32 pounder Blakeley of the enemy, which has now become so familiar to the ears of Petersburg people, commenced its daily business, and at the usual intervals of five minutes its reverberating noise would break upon the ear, and elicit the remark from every one, "That Blakeley is about again." This gun is stBlakeley is about again." This gun is stationed at or near Pace's farm, on the City Point road, and has thrown many shells into the lower part of the city, but so far has caused no destruction of life. On Monday evening one of its missiles fell near the Market House, entering one of the small brick buildings to the west of the market, occupied by Mr. Frank Perkins, cutting a girder in two, and scattering the plastering in all directions. Another scraped the tin roof of the Southside. Depot building. glanced over into the depot yard