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From Petersburgexplosion of one of Grant's mines.
repulse of the enemy-large captures of prisoners, colors &c.
The Breach retaken! [from our own Correspondent.] Petersburg, Va., July 29, 1864.
The whole of the spring and two thirds of the summer have past and neither Petersburg nor Richmond have fallen yet.--Grant, as you know, still maintains a show of force along our entire front at this place, but it is very evident that the bulk of his force is elsewhere.
A part of it has gone to the Valley and to Washington to confront Early.
Another part is on the other side of the Appomattox, in front of Bermuda Hundred, and still another has crossed to the north side of the James.
It is impossible to say where the hard fighting of the next three months will occur, but front the stupendous breastworks which both sides have constructed it is hardly possible that there will be any more serious fighting just here, nor am I much inclined to the belief that there will be any