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Sunday morning, March 26, 1865. About one hundred prisoners have just been received at the military prison, from the right. The enemy charged upon, and captured, our picket line, for some distance, in the vicinity of Burgess's mill. Early this morning, all was quiet, and the enemy in possession of the picket lines. This was the amount of the engagement. We lost a few prisoners — the pickets. Casualties were few. A. T. Petersburg, Va., March 28, 1865. In my letter of the 25th, I stated that the works of the enemy were first carried by the sharpshooters of Gordon's division. I must correct this by stating that this was not done by those of this division alone, but by the sharpshooters of the corps. The number of prisoners taken is larger than I have heretofore reported, and, in all, amounts to near one thousand. Our loss in captured, too, is larger than at first reported. Lieutenant- Colonel Mosely, of the Twenty-first Virginia regiment, was captured.
Police Arrests. --Officers Adams and Granger arrested yesterday afternoon two men, named Clay Rawlings and William Slatery, charged with stealing one thousand eight hundred dollars from Robert Rounds. The first named was also charged with stealing sixty-two dollars from Charles Hoffman. Chaffin's Bluff, March 26, 1865. To the Editor of the Dispatch: We do not like to complain of bad shooting on the part of either the enemy or our own army at this distance from danger, say fifteen miles; but there was certainly some lad mortar practice during the fight of yesterday morning near Petersburg, as we distinctly saw, with several officers and man, shells bursting high in the air in that direction. I write only to make a record of far-seeing, so much has been said of how far the guns of different battles have been heard during the war. I think that this fight has certainly been witnessed from a greater distance than any other, except across water. At the first dawn, we c