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The Daily Dispatch: August 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Northern Presidential campaign — the War . (search)
Northern papers of the 4th instant furnish some additional accounts of interest, which we give below:
The mine explosion at Petersburg.
The papers have a great deal about the recent explosive demonstration of Grant at Petersburg, but not in the same tone in which they first heralded the news of the disastrous reception of the "gallant" charge of the "colored brigade." A correspondent says:
But the rebels, exasperated as we know them now to have been at the sight of the negroes, fought with the fury of devils, and reinforcements coming to their aid — our signal officers counted six brigades, hurried from a camp beyond the town — the tide of battle turned.
The colored troops gave way, broke in confusion, when the rebels, having repulsed their charge, charged them in turn, and then they ran, a terror-stricken, disordered mass of fugitives, to the rear of the white troops.
In vain their officers endeavored to rally them with all the persuasion of tongue, sabre and pi