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The Daily Dispatch: June 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
le 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 ainhabitants, but at 6 o'clock last evening it was not known what damage had been done to the road beyond the Junction. The stores had all been removed from Burkesville previous to the visit of the raiders, and the injury to the road at that point can speedily be repaired. The latest accounts we have from the raiders repreeeding on from Meherrin's in the direction of Staunton river. They burnt the depot at Meherrin's and tore up the track in several places between that point and Burkesville.--It has also been ascertained that the track was torn up in one or two places this side of the Junction. Their design is evidently to damage the road as much
The Daily Dispatch: June 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], The position at Petersburg. (search)
n within three miles of the Junction, and at 2 P M the "circuit" was broken, and no communication with the operator at Burkesville has been held since. The enemy has undoubtedly reached that point, and there injured the Danville as well as the Soutwhich is the only one that Davis has left. This, however, is a very important road on account of his connections. At Burkesville, fifty-three miles from Richmond, and the same distance from Petersburg, it connects with the Lynchburg road, furnishing communication with that place and also with Gordonsville, although by a long and inconvenient circuit. From Burkesville, the Richmond and Danville road extends eighty seven miles to Danville on the boundary of North Carolina, and hence a short le time a most effective line. Fither Kautz or Sheridan should therefore give it his immediate and earnest attention. Burkesville is its vital centre. If it is to be cut, that is the point for the operation. Eight or ten miles of road destroyed s