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The Daily Dispatch: December 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
nity 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 south of Petersburg, and having burnt the railroad bridge at that place, started south, towards Weldon, destroying the railroad and laying waste the country as they advanced. The Petersburg Express states, on the info