Gouverneur K. Warren to Major-General WARREN, July 30, 1864

July 30, 1864. Major-General WARREN: The attack ordered on the two-gun battery is suspended. GEO. G. MEADE, Major-General, Commanding. *For copy of this dispatch as submitted with the report of the Court of Inquiry on the Mine explosion, see p. 151. HEADQUARTERS FirtH ARMY CORPS, July 30, 1864—9.15 a. m. Major-General HUMPHREYS: Just before receiving your dispatch to assault the battery on the left of the crater occupied by General Burnside, the enemy drove his troops out of the place and I think now hold it. I can find no one who kuows for certainty or seems willing to admit it, but I think I saw a rebel battle-flag in it just now, and shots coming from it this way. I am, therefore, if this is true, no more able to take the battery than I was this time yesterday. All our advantages are lost. I await further instructions and am trying to get at the condition of affairs for certainty.

G. K. WARREN,