NP: June 11, 1864 Albany Evening Journal: Important from the South Side

IMPORTANT FROM THE SOUTH SIDE.

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Gen. Gilmore Attacks Petersburgh.

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The Outer Earth Works Carried

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Our Loss Only a Few Hundred.

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A Portion of the Petersburg Rail Road Destroyed.

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FORTRESS MONROE, June 10 [1864].–Yesterday morning [June 9, 1864] a detachment of Gen. [Benjamin] Butler’s forces, under Gen. [Quincy] Gillmore, made a demonstration on Petersburg, and succeeded in carrying the enemy’s outer earthworks, with the loss of only a few hundred.

Several contrabands made their escape, and have arrived at Fort Monroe.

While General Gillmore was advancing on Petersburg, Gen. Butler sent a force which succeeded in destroying three or four miles of the Petersburg and Richmond railroad, with-out loss.¹

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