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The Daily Dispatch: September 17, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
t came in such indefinite shape that we forebore any notice of is yesterday. The affair, as it turned out, possessed no great importance, though if any reliance can be placed on the assertions of prisoners, the enemy intended a bold push for the Southside road. It appears that, early. Thursday morning, Warren's Fifth corps of the Yankee army left their works in the vicinity of the Weldon railroad and broke through General Butler's lines below Poplar Spring Church. This is a point in Dinwiddie county, between the Vaughan and Boydton plankroads, about two miles west of the Weldon road, and between three and four miles south of Petersburg. The Yankees attempted to advance, but were soon met by Colonel D. D. Ferebee, commanding General Dearing's brigade, who fought them four hours with varying success, and finally repulsed them with considerable loss. Our loss in the affair was small. The enemy succeeded in reaching Poplar Spring Church, and threw up breastworks at that point, but