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The Daily Dispatch: July 4, 1864., [Electronic resource], The War news. (search)
have themselves inaugurated. Among the prisoners brought in on Friday was Col. Daniel J Crooks, of the 22d New York cavalry. Also, one representative of the Northern press, who gave the name of Ira B Van Gilden, reporter for the New York Times and Philadelphia Press. --Rather an abrupt termination to the career of a newspaper man, but it serves him right for being caught in such bad company. All the facts we have learned in connection with the final event of Wilson's raiders at Stony Creek confirm the account given by our correspondent, and published in Saturday's paper. A repetition is, therefore, unnecessary. So severely were the Yankees punished in Dinwiddie that they will hardly venture upon a similar expedition again for some time to come. On Friday night, shortly after 10 o'clock, the inhabitants of Petersburg were aroused by heavy firing on the lines, commencing apparently on our centre and extending around to the left. For some twenty or thirty minutes the f