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The Daily Dispatch: August 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
[important news from Petersburg. Petersburg, July 30. --The enemy sprung a mine under our works on the Baxter Road, one and a half miles from the city, this morning about 5 o'clock, blowing up a considerable portion of our works, which were occupied by Pegram's battery, of this city, supported by Elliott's South Carolina brigade. A number of lives w The enemy at once bounded forward driving in our forces and occupying a large portion of our lines. Mahone being notified of the c the enemy's grape and shrapnel fell thick and fast in the outskirts of the city. Our loss in prisoners is not believed to equal our captures. The Yankee prisoners say Grant has been mining three weeks. [Second Dispatch.] Petersburg, July 30. --About two o'clock to-day, everything being arranged, General Mahone threw forward Saunders's Alabama brigade, which charged the enemy in gallant style, recapturing the rest of the breastworks temporarily lost and taking about five hundr