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From Petersburg. Petersburg, August 18. --The enemy's force engaged to-day consisted of three brigades of the Fifth corps, with eighteen pieces of artillery and an unascertained force of cavalry, commanded by General Warton. The enemy engaged our cavalry, about 2 o'clock, about four miles southwest of the town, driving them in some four miles, when our infantry came into action about two o'clock, driving the enemy back some three-quarters of a miles. Night closed the engagement, with the enemy the Weldon railroad of a point about three miles below the city. A force of the enemy's cavalry is reported and behaved, to have gone on a raid in the direction of the Southside railroad. The enemy slow to-day is Ours is not heavy the wounded are Color Lycil, of Virginia, and Blank, of Mississippi, At out two hundred prisoners were captured. [Second Dispatch.] Petersburg, August 19. --This morning, about 1 o'clock, it being believed that the enemy were massin