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The Daily Dispatch: May 9, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
eft of her Crew. On Saturday last a very handsome affair resulting in the destruction of the gunboat Suwanee, took place at Curles Neck. She had landed a party who had fired the buildings on Mr. Allen's place and was lying in the stream off Pickett's farm. About 12 o'clock she was attacked by four companies of dismounted cavalry and Starke's battery of light artillery. It appears that the crew were at dinner, and the second shot bursted the boat's boiler, causing a scene of terrible confof Allen Rome, in Gloucester, was also destroyed. Burning of a Railroad bridge. Stony Creek bridge, on the Petersburg and Weldon railroad, was burnt by the Yankees on Saturday night. This was done to prevent reinforcements being sent to Pickett at Petersburg, but it came too late. Death of Brig. Gen. Stafford. Brig. Gen. J. H. Stafford, who was wounded at the Wilderness, died yesterday morning at 10 o'clock, at the officers' hospital, in this city. He fell while gallantly lea