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From Petersburg. [from our own Correspondent.] Petersburg, Va., August 2.
I wrote you very hurriedly on Saturday, recapitulating the main points in the affair of that day. Subsequent investigations have put me in possession of some additional facts, which I now propose to give you.
The sap to the mine which was exploded was not over sixty yards in length and about six feet in width, and was dug fully twenty-five feet below the surface of the earth, and occupied in its completion about thirty days. That this is not the only mine which the enemy are preparing, I have other evidence besides the statements of the prisoners.
I hope the next time they attempt to spring one that we will be better prepared for them than we were before.
The results of the fight are now better known.
Our losses will foot up about thirteen hundred, as follows: Mahone's division — Sanders's, Mahone's, and Wright's brigades, killed and wounded about four hundred and fifty; Elliott's South Car