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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 22 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 18 0 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3 14 0 Browse Search
Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army . 14 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 14 0 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2 14 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 27, 1864., [Electronic resource] 10 0 Browse Search
William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik 8 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 25, 1864., [Electronic resource] 8 0 Browse Search
Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Debates of Lincoln and Douglas: Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party at the times of their Delivery. 6 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: June 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ght from this or any other point. The only additional report we have is connected with the fight on Thursday. It is stated that our forces drove the enemy four miles, when, their ammunition giving out, they were themselves driven precisely the same distance. Raid on the Danville railroad. The Yankee cavalry force sent out from Grant's army, under Spear, Kautz, and Wilson, after destroying the Petersburg and Weldon railroad, near Reams's Station, assailed the Southside railroad, at Ford's Despot, about twenty miles from Petersburg which they burnt, together with two locomotives and sixteen burthen cars, laden with stores, &c, belonging to the Norfolk and Petersburg railroad. They then proceeded on and struck the Richmond and Danville Railroad at Burkesville Junction, where the road intersects with the Southside railroad, fifty- three miles from Richmond. Here on Thursday night they burnt the freight house, (an unimportant structure,) the water tanks, and tore up the track
The Daily Dispatch: June 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], The position at Petersburg. (search)
ated the prisoners in the jail. During the afternoon of Wednesday, the raiders reached the Southside railroad, cut the wires and tore up the track between Ford's Depot and Wilson's. At Ford's, they burnt the depot, water tanks, and two long trains of cars, with engines attached, belonging to the Norfolk railroad. At the fiftFord's, they burnt the depot, water tanks, and two long trains of cars, with engines attached, belonging to the Norfolk railroad. At the fifteen mile post, this side of Ford's, they overturned about one and a half miles of the railroad track. Yesterday, at half-past 1 P M, the operator at Burkesville Junction informed the operator in this city, via Richmond, that the raiders were then within three miles of the Junction, and at 2 P M the "circuit" was broken, and nFord's, they overturned about one and a half miles of the railroad track. Yesterday, at half-past 1 P M, the operator at Burkesville Junction informed the operator in this city, via Richmond, that the raiders were then 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 Southside road. There is much property here of value, owned by both companies, and we fear it will all fall a prey to the vandalism of our desperate but cowardly enemie