Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: June 23, 1864., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Burkville (Massachusetts, United States) or search for Burkville (Massachusetts, United States) in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: June 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
rs, but nothing approximating a general engagement, or even an assault at any point. Fewer shells than usual fell within the city limits yesterday, and but little damage was done. Grant seems to have adopted the expedient of sending out raiding parties, one of which, under Spear, has already started, and, it is reported. has succeeded in cutting the Petersburg and Weldon Railroad. This expedition, it is said, was moving through Dinwiddie yesterday morning, and inquiring for the road to Burkville and the High Bridge. Hence it is inferred that a demonstration against the Danville and a southside Railroads is in contemplation. After the above was written a telegraphic dispatch was received, which will be found in another column, announcing that an engagements took place in the evening, in which the Yankees were whipped, losing a large number of prisoners, with cannon and color. The prisoners belonged to the crack corps of Gen. Hencook. This news furnishes a pleasant comme