NP, RD 8/26/1864

From the Richmond Dispatch
 
August 26, 1864
 
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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