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The Daily Dispatch: June 27, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
nd wounded on the field and along the route. Great credit is due to Gen. Hampton and his command for their handsome success. Very respectfully, R. E. Lee, General. The raid upon the railroads — a check on the Southside — damage to the Danville road. By the following official dispatch it will be seen that General "Rooney" Lee has been harassing the enemy's column which moved up the Southside Railroad from Grant's army: Headq'rs Army of Northern Va., June 25, 1864. Hon Seche rails in the vicinity of the way stations. It is understood to have been the original purpose of the column which moved up the Southside railroad to have joined the main body at Price's, about fifteen miles this side of Keysville, on the Danville road, taking the main road from Farmville to this point. At 5 o'clock last evening they were without further intelligence at the Danville depot, except that the raiders had reached Mossingford, six miles from Staunton river. At this point
The Daily Dispatch: June 27, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
t a grand and new idea comes into the struggle he fails. If Lee is to hold Richmond, Fort Darling will be the next point of interest. But the dispatch from Mr. Stanton states somewhat obscurely that Lee is preparing to hold the west bank of the Appomattox. Near Petersburg the Appomattox runs from west to east, and if we are to understand that Lee is holding the north bank we may, perhaps, inter that he is holding a point on which to rest his left wing in an attempt to retreat towards Danville. The patriotic Offering of the Ottawa. The above is the caption to an article in a late Washington paper, from which we make the following extract: Our readers who saw the passage through this city of Gen. Burnside's corps will remember the Indian battalion embraced in it, a body of active, robust young men. They were volunteers from the Ottawa of Michigan, and constituted the 1st Michigan sharpshooters. In the fight in the Wilderness this regiment was deployed as skirmishers
The Daily Dispatch: June 27, 1864., [Electronic resource], The movements around Petersburg. (search)
ad burnt the Junction at Burkesville, and then, to the surprise of everybody, moved off towards Danville, instead of the High Bridge. The Junction, as is generally known, is at the intersection ofage. We hope that they have succeeded in heading the raiders, or will do so, before they reach Danville. Capture and escape of the Rev Dr. Theodrick Pryor. Our citizens were greatly surpriseucous, which would indicate a long journey, and as they have diverged from the Junction towards Danville, we shall not be at all surprised to hear of their extending the expedition to a section never y raiders. Unless met by determined resistance, we have no doubt their destination is not only Danville, but even Greensboro' and other portions of North Carolina, where the people have never dreameddispatch received last night from Rice's, via Lynchburg and Richmond, states that when last heard from the raiders were moving up the Danville road, and were within a few miles of Meherrin Station.