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miles southwest of Petersburg, and that the enemy, attacking our entrenchments, were six or seven times repulsed with heavy loss. They also report that Brigadier-General Dearing, of our cavalry, was killed. Three thousand prisoners and some guns it was likewise said we had captured. Though these accounts may be true, we cansterday, amounted to almost nothing. We have heard of only a few men wounded; and from the south side we have nothing we regard as authentic but the death of General Dearing. We of course, know nothing of the enemy's losses. General Dearing, though a mere youth, being only twenty-two years of age, was one of the rising men of thGeneral Dearing, though a mere youth, being only twenty-two years of age, was one of the rising men of the army. Resigning his cadetship at West Point, he begun the war as a lieutenant of the Washington (Louisiana) Artillery, rose to a lieutenant- colonelcy of artillery, was made colonel of cavalry, and then brigadier-general of cavalry. He was from Campbell county, Virginia. Later. A telegram, received last night from Chafl