| From the Richmond Dispatch |
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| August 30, 1864 |
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| The battle of the Weldon railroad |
| Petersburg, Virginia, August 26, 1864 |
| ***** The Weldon railroad {the
Petersburg RR} is now certainly destroyed for a distance of
over ten miles, and the rails and sills
have both been carried off — perhaps to rebuild the City Point road.
***** |
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