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| Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3 | 309 | 19 | Browse | Search |
| Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2 | 309 | 19 | Browse | Search |
| General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant | 170 | 20 | Browse | Search |
| J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary | 117 | 33 | Browse | Search |
| Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) | 65 | 11 | Browse | Search |
| Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative | 62 | 2 | Browse | Search |
| Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) | 36 | 2 | Browse | Search |
| William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . | 34 | 12 | Browse | Search |
| Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee | 29 | 3 | Browse | Search |
| Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 29 | 3 | Browse | Search |
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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: December 3, 1864., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Butler or search for Butler in all documents.
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The War News.
The heavy boom of big guns was heard in this city throughout yesterday, giving rise to the belief either that a battle was going on below the city or that an uncommonly lively time was being had in the vicinity of Butler's canal.
It, however, turned out that all the noise was made by our guns, at different points on James river, practising to obtain certain ranges; trying to see how they could have knocked the Yankee monitors into cocked hats if they had been there.
The result of the practice is said to have been entirely satisfactory to the parties engaged.
With this exception all was as quiet as usual on the north side yesterday.
From Petersburg and beyond.
If all we hear be true, Grant has made a most important movement on our extreme right, south of Petersburg.
A gentleman from Petersburg informs us that, on Thursday morning the enemy, with a large force of cavalry and two divisions of infantry, struck the Weldon railroad at Stoncy creek, twenty miles