The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-08-08
ADDITIONAL FROM THE NORTH.

Northern papers of the 4th instant furnish some
additional accounts of interest, which give
below:
THE MINE EXPLOSION PETERSBURG.
The papers have a great deal about the recent ex-
plosive demonstration of Grant at Petersburg, but
not i'll the tone i'll which they first heralded the
news of the disastrous reception Of the gallant
charge of the 'colored brigade" correspondent
says;
But the rebels exasperated as we know them now
to have been the sight of the negroes fought with
the fury of devils, and reintorcemehts coming to
their aidour signal officers counted SIX bIigades,
hurried from camp beyond the tovn-the
tide of battle turned The coored troops gave way,
broke in confusion, when the rebels having repulsed
their charge charged them i'll tup and then they ran,
terror-stTcken diso(ered mass Of tugtiyes to the
of the white troops In vaissss.er officers
deayorcd to rally them with all the persuasion of
tongue, sabre and pistol Whatever of dseredit at
taches to the troops themselves, their officers are be-
yond reproach. y
The Baltimore Gazette, in summary of the result
of the attack, says
1t is, of course, entirely too early to obtain any,
thing more than general idea of the loss sustained
by the Federal troops. The actual number of the
killed and wounded and missing will, in all proba-
bility, be lett to conjecture for some time yet to
come and only be learned hereafter by those who
have to the archives of the War Department.
1t Is probably true, as the telegram from Washing
ton asserts, that the exact loss the battle OF sat
urday has not been officially ascertained Unotii-
cially, however, We told that the killed and
wounded a,e estimated at about two thousand five
hundred; the number missng-that is to say all OF
those hudded together i'll the ruined fort, and there
captured, and all of those lying in the open space
under the eneTnys guns-not being computed at all
1t is further stated that the rough estimate of the
killed and wounded may possibly be found to be be-
low the mark, as many persons believe that the
figures, when carefully summed up viii Indicate that
the casualties i'll these two classes will be heavier
According to the correspondent of the New York
Tribune, the very fort upon whose destruction so
much preparatory labor had been expended was con-
verted into perfect slaughter pen, i'll which two
thousand men were hudded together, unable 70 adj
vance retreat, and exposed for hours to an
incessant storm of grape, canister and muskctry.
1t impossible says the writer, to rally the
thus piled together in the pit made by the ex-
| ploSion. When ordered to charge they were immo-
vable lying in some places top of each other
afraid to stir inch, whlsth shells of the rebel
falling among them, dealt death all sides" OF
the thus fcatully aSsailcd, part attempted to
regain the Federal lines, but shot down in the
act OF retreatng, the ground III front of the ranks
being literally covered with the dead aud wounded
MOVEMENTS OF GENERAL BRECKINRfDGE.
| According to the correspondent of the Philadel
pha Inquirer, at Frederick City, General Bfeekn
ridge has been called to Richmond by special or