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The Daily Dispatch: December 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
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 information of passengers by the South side road, that Stoney creek station was seized by a large force of Yankee cavalry, who held it at last accounts. We fear the account above given by us is the true one, and that the movement is more serious than a cavalry raid. It is proper to state that we have been unable to obtain from the War Department any information in regard to this important event. Gunboats in the Rappahannock. Last Thursday, two Yankee gunboats came into the Rappahannock, attended by a flotilla of oyster boats. The gunbo