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The Daily Dispatch: June 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
amounted to little or nothing. A woman was killed by a shell thrown in the city on yesterday evening.--Very few shells have been thrown into the city to-day. Advices from Burkesville are to the effect that the enemy burnt it last night, about one o'clock. The high bridge is safe, and will not he destroyed I am quite sure. This morning about sunrise our batteries on the Chesterfield side of the Appomattox, opened a furious cannonade on the enemy's lines near battery No. 5, on the City Point road. After the cannonading had lasted about thirty minutes, Haygood's S. C., brigade, of Hoke's division, was started forward. They charged the enemy's skirmishers and drove them back, capturing some thirty of them. Their line of battle, however, was too strong for us, and so our troops had to retire. Our loss is not over sixty in killed and wounded. We also lost, I think, a few prisoners, and captured about one hundred. Since then nothing has been done. 3:20 P. M.--It is again
The Daily Dispatch: June 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
that may be required. Stanton's dispatches. Stanton's dispatches are about the usual batch of fabrications. In them is incorporated one from Sheridan, (who has been chased back to West Point,) giving an account of his "victory" over Wade Hampton. The lie is really not of interest enough to print. The Secretary has nothing from Hunter's command. The following is his latest dispatch: Washington, June 19--9.45 P M. Maj Gen Dix, New York: This evening a dispatch from City Point, dated at nine o'clock this morning, reached the Department. It reports that our forces advanced yesterday to within about a mile in front of Petersburg, where they found the enemy occupying a new line of entrenchments, which, after successive assaults, we failed to carry, but hold, and have entrenched our advanced positions. From the forces of the enemy within the enemy's new line, it is inferred that Beauregard has been reinforced from Lee's army. No report has been receiv
The Daily Dispatch: June 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
European advices to the 10th are unimportant — The ship Rockingham has been burnt by the Alabama. A resumption of hostilities in Denmark was feared. Breadstuffs closed dull with a downward tendency. The steamboat J A Warner, which left City Point Saturday morning, was fired upon by guerillas about forty miles below City Point. No damage done. Bishop McCloskey, of Albany, has been constituted Archbishop of New York, to succeed the late Archbishop Hughes. Gold opened in New Yorhip Rockingham has been burnt by the Alabama. A resumption of hostilities in Denmark was feared. Breadstuffs closed dull with a downward tendency. The steamboat J A Warner, which left City Point Saturday morning, was fired upon by guerillas about forty miles below City Point. No damage done. Bishop McCloskey, of Albany, has been constituted Archbishop of New York, to succeed the late Archbishop Hughes. Gold opened in New York on the 20th at 193½ and closed at 10 P M, at 199
The Daily Dispatch: June 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ng 500 prisoners, including twenty commissioned officers. The enemy burnt the Burkesville Junction last night at 1 o'clock. The High Bridge was safe at last accounts. A reconnaissance was made in the enemy's front this morning, on the City Point road, but it accomplished nothing. [Second Dispatch.] Petersburg, June 24. --There was heavy cannonading this morning at 7 o'clock, began by our batteries in Chesterfield on the enemy's extreme right, and continued for one hour and rd Dispatch.] Petersburg, June 24, 6 P M. --Gen Mahone, after dislodging the enemy from the Weldon road last night, pushed around their left flank and captured the prisoners alluded to in dispatch of this morning. The affair on the City Point road this morning was an effort to retake some of our lost breastworks, and was preceded by heavy cannonading. Haygood drove the enemy from the breastworks, but other troops falling to support him he fell back. His loss is between one and