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t we opine that he is practicing the same game of deception in running his trains so busily, and causing his men to cheer so lustily, in hearing of our troops. We have no doubt, however, that he has largely reinforced his new position, though not to that extent that he would like us to believe. We have intelligence thus far of the presence of two corps massed on our right and engaged in the recent battles there, viz: the Fifth, commanded by Warren, and the Ninth, formerly commanded by Burnside, but since his relief by General Gibbon. These corps, as have the others of Grant's army, have been greatly strengthened by the assignment of new recruits to their ranks, and now number probably eight or ten thousand men each. Since Grant established himself in front of Petersburg, he has lost five thousand men for every mile he has advanced. If our readers will take the trouble to count his losses in taking the Weldon road, thence to the Vaughan and now to the Squirrel Level road, t