Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1863, by J. S. Thrasher, in the Clerk's office of the district Court of the Confederate States for the Northern district of Georgia.
from Petersburg.
Petersburg, July 5.
There was brisk skirmishing along the lines, on the centre and right, last night and to-day, with heavy shelling from siege guns at intervals.
Gen. Alexander Longstreet, chief of artillery, slightly wounded a few days since, is doing quite well.
Gen. Bushrod Johnson was slightly wounded yesterday, but did not leave the field.