| From the Richmond Dispatch |
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| August 26, 1864 |
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| The war News |
| The situation in front of Petersburg is
unchanged. ***** |
| As we stated yesterday, on the authority
of reports brought in by scouts, but a comparatively small length of
the track of the Weldon railroad {the Petersburg
RR} has been torn up. It is believed that the road has not been
destroyed as far as Reams's station, and that the rails,
instead of being heated and twisted, so as to render them unfit for
further use are being hauled away as fast as they are taken up. The
impression also prevails to some extent that the enemy intends to
preserve the road intact for his own use, in case of the evacuation of
Petersburg and Richmond — an event so far in the future that Grant
may as well secure a life lease on his position between Reams's
station and Davis's farm, and will it to his heirs and assigns. ***** |
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