Monday morning...August 1, 1864.

From Petersburg
explosion of one of Grant's mines.

repulse of the enemy-large captures of prisoners, colors &c.

The Breach retaken!
[from our own Correspondent.]

Petersburg, Va., July 30, 1864.

The following is a list of the battle flags captured: Four large United States flags; one battle tattered flag belonging to 11th N. H. V., and inscribed "Fredericksburg, Vicksburg, Jackson;" another marked.--regiment infantry; another belonging to 57th Massachusetts; another belonging to 31st regiment infantry; 58th Massachusetts regiment, flag staff broken; 20th regimentMichigan infantry; one guidon and one regimental flag. And finally, but by no means least, a very handsome flag belonging to 28th regiment colored infantry. Among our captures are to be mentioned about two thousand stand of small arms.

Richmond Daily Dispatch.

Wednesday morning...August 3. 1864.
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From Petersburg.
[from our own Correspondent.]

Petersburg, Va., August 2.

I wrote you very hurriedly on Saturday, recapitulating the main points in the affair of that day. Subsequent investigations have put me in possession of some additional facts, which I now propose to give you.

The sap to the mine which was exploded was not over sixty yards in length and about six feet in width, and was dug fully twenty-five feet below the surface of the earth, and occupied in its completion about thirty days. That this is not the only mine which the enemy are preparing, I have other evidence besides the statements of the prisoners. I hope the next time they attempt to spring one that we will be better prepared for them than we were before.

The results of the fight are now better known. Our losses will foot up about thirteen hundred, as follows: Mahone's division — Sanders's, Mahone's, and Wright's brigades, killed and wounded about four hundred and fifty; Elliott's South Carolina brigade, which was a salient when the explosion occurred, loses about three hundred in killed and wounded; Ransom, Clingman, and Wise, who were under heavy artillery and musketry firing, lose about three hundred, killed and wounded. The enemy captured some three hundred prisoners, at least their officers so stated yesterday under flag of truce.

In my report of Saturday I had intended to have made mention of the splendid manner in which the artillery firing was directed by Major W. H. Caskie, of your city; the battery of Wright, of his command, is especially deserving of honorable mention. The battle flags taken from the enemy number no less than nineteen, and are of every character and in all conditions, from the one scarcely soiled to the greasy and battle tattered banner that has followed the Yankee misfortunes in many an unlucky engagement. The following is a list of the flags and their gallant captors:

"W. B. Wellons, 6th Virginia, company H, Mahone's brigade, 12th New Hampshire Volunteers; Unascertained, 28th U. States colored; John W. Miles, 41st Virginia, company H, Mahone's brigade, Guidon, marked Unascertained, 31st regiment infantry;

Lieutenant-Colonel R. O. Whitehead, 16th Virginia, Mahone's brigade, Stars and Stripes; Unascertained, 57th Massachusetts regiment; David Barnes, 16th Virginia regiment, company G, Mahone's brigade, Stars and Stripes; Lieutenant Joseph B. Goodwin16th Virginia, company F., Mahone's brigade, Stars and Stripes; Sergent John H. Deaton, 8th Alabama, company E, Sanders's brigade, 2d Michigan regiment; Sergent Peter Howell, 61st Virginia, company G, Mahone's brigade,--regiment infantry; John M. Critcher, 9th Alabama, company K, Sanders's brigade, 20th regimentMichigan infantry; L. R. Kilby, 16th Virginia, company B, Mahone's brigade, 100th regiment--F. J. Herndon, 3d Georgia, company F., Wright's brigade, 58th Massachusetts, Regimental; A. J. Saddler, 16th Virginia, company F, Mahone's brigade, 58th Massachusetts, State; W. F. Lane, 16th Virginia, company G, Mahone's brigade, Stars and Stripes; James Heaton, 11th Alabama, company G, Sanders's brigade, Guidon, Stars and Stripes, small; Unascertained, Stars and Stripes."

The prisoners taken will reach at least eleven hundred, including the wounded, who are at the Poplar Lawn Hospital, and being well cared for. The Yankee loss, all told, cannot fall short of five thousand men. Their officers, under flag of truce yesterday, acknowledged that they had about three thousand wounded in their hospitals. This, with eleven hundred prisoners and the seven hundred dead of the army, will very nearly approximate five thousand.