| From the Wilmington Journal |
| June 30, 1864 |
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| Operations of the Enemy on the
{Richmond &} Danville Road |
| Our Communications with Richmond |
| From a gentleman who, in
pursuance of orders, tried to reach Richmond by the Danville route, we
learn the following particulars: |
| He got to Danville on last
Friday evening and left there on Saturday evening at 7 o'clock. Up to
that time, and indeed up to Sunday, he knows that the enemy had not
appeared on the Piedmont Road (Danville connection) nor got nearer to it
than the bridge on the Danville Road over the Staunton River, say 48
miles. |
| At Danville he was informed
that the enemy had struck the Danville Road last week at Burkeville
junction and had been busily engaged in the work of destruction between
that point and the Staunton River, and had done their work pretty
effectually. At Greensboro, on his return, he learned that the enemy had
been met, repulsed three times and finally driven off from the Staunton
Bridge. This was done by such force of soldiers of different commands as
could be got together on their way to their commands at Richmond or
elsewhere, together with the local militia, numbering about six hundred.
The whole Confederate force was about twelve hundred. The enemy's force
is differently estimated at from fifteen hundred to eight thousand.
Probably the first would be nearest the truth. |
| On Sunday one hundred and
seventy-six men, principally composed of workmen engaged at the
Government Naval Ordnance works at Charlotte, passed through Greensboro'
on their way to the theatre of action. We presume that a sufficient
force will soon be gathered, and will drive the enemy off the line of
the Danville Road, but how soon the road can be repaired so as to
restore communication, is more than we can even pretend to guess at. |
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