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The following are the latest official despatches
published :
" War Department, Washington, Sept. 3, 8 p.m.
"No intelligence from Atlanta later than my
telegram of last night has btenreceived. The tele-
graphic lines between Nashville and Chattanooga
were broken last night by Wheeler, and we have
had nothing south of Nashville to-day. This ac-
counts for the absence of later information from
Atlanta. No doubt is entertained of the correct-
ness of the reports received last night, which came
from two -independent sources, besides the official
despatch from General Slocum. Unofficial reports
this evening from Nashville state that the damage
done by Wheeler to the railroad will be speedily
repaired, and that Wheeler had retreated, General
Rossean being in pursuit; that in an engagement
between Rosseau and Wheeler's forces the rebel
General Kelly was mortally wounded and is in our
hands.

" EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War.
“To Major. General Dix." . ... .

" Sept. 4.
" The following telegram from General Grant
hss just been received :

" ' City Point, Sept. 3.

" I have received a Richmond paper to-day. It
contains a rumour of a battle at Atlanta, but says
the War Department, having no official information,
declines to form an opinion from the rumours. I
have no doubt, however, that Sherman has gained
a great success there. Before the despatch of last
night was received, announcing the occupation of
Atlanta by our troops, the fact was known to our
pickets. The rebels helloed over to our men that
Sherman had whipped Hood, that the latter had
lost 40,000 men, and that our troops were in Atlanta.
All quiet here.

" U. S. GRANT, Liont.-General.
" ' Hon. E. M. Stanton:

" Our south. western telegraph line continues
down, and this, with a heavy storm that commenced
in the afternoon, and is still prevailing beyond
Louisville, may damage the line so as to hinder the
arrival of details from Atlanta for a day or two.
" EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War.
"Major-General Dix."

from 50 to 100 rebels killed, 70 prisoners taken,
and one gun captured. The report being confirmed
by the Richmond Examiner, there is no reason to
doubt its truth.

" EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War.
" Major-Gen. John A. Dix, New York."
President Lincoln has issued the following orders
and recommendations in reference to the recent
Federal successes at Mobile and Atlanta :
" Executive Mansion, Washington City, Sept. 3.
"The signal success that Divine Providence has recently
vouchsafed to the operations of the United States fleet and
army in the harbour of Mobile, and the reduction of Fort
Powell, Fort Gaines, and Fort Morgan, and the glorious
achievements of the army under Major-General Sherman
in the State of Georgia, resulting in the capture of the city
of Atlanta, call for devout acknowledgment to the Supreme
Being, in whose hands are the destinies of nations. It is
therefore requested that on next Sunday, in all places of
worship in the United States, thanksgiving be offered to
Him for His mercy in preserving our national existence
against the insurgent rebels who have been waging a cruel
war against the Government of the United States for its
overthrow, and ails° that prayers be made for Divine pro-
tection to our brave soldiers and their leaders in the field,
who have so often and so gallantly perilled their lives in
battling with the enemy, and for the blessing and comfort
from the Father of Mercies to the sick, wounded, and
prisoners, and to the orphans and widows of those who
have fallen in the service of their country, and that He
will continue to uphold the Government of the United
States against all the efforts of public enemies and secret
foes. " ABRAHAM LINCOLN."
" Executive Mansion, September 3.

" The national thanks ate tendered by the President to
Admiral Farragut and Major-General Canby for the skill
and harmony with which the recent operations in Mobile
harbour, and against Fort Powell, Fort Gaines, and Fort
Morgan were planned and can't(' into execution; also to
Admiral Farragut and Major-General Granger, under
whose immediate command they were conducted, and to the
gallant commanders on sea and land, and to the sailors and
soldiers engaged in the operations for their energy and cou-
rage, which, under the blessing of Providence, have been
crowned with brilliant success, and have won for them the
applause and thanks of the nation.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

... ---- -
Executive Mansion, Sept. 3.
The nation's thanks are tendered by the President to
Major-General William T. Sherman and the gallant officers
and soldiers of his command before Atlanta for the distin-
guished ability, courage, and perseverance displayed in the
campaign in Georgia, which, under Divine Power, resulted
in the capture of the city of Atlanta. The marches, battles,
sieges, and other military operations which have signalised
this campaign must render it famous in the annals of war,
and have entitled those who have participated therein to the
applause and thanks of the nation.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Executive Mansion, Washington, Sept. 3.
the sth day of September,
commencingo Ordered-1, er e d —l,atThfhaet onh Monday,
ourofl2
o'clock noon, there shall
be given a salute of 100 guns at the arsenal and navy yard
at Washington, and on Tuesday, the oth of September, or
on the day after the receipt of this order, at each arsenal
and navy yard in the United States for the recent brilliant
achievements of the fleet and land forces of the United
States in the harbour of Mobile, and the reduction of Port
Powell, Fort Gaines, and Fort Morgan. The Secretary of
War and the Secretary of the Navy will issue the necessary
directions in their respective departments for the execution
of this order. 2. That on Wednesday, Sept. 7, at the hour
of 12 o'clock noon, there shall be fired a salute of 100 guns
at the arsenals at Washington, and at New York, Boston,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburg, Newport, Kentucky,
and St, Louis, and at New Orleans, Mobile, Pensacola,
Hilton Head, and Newborn the day after the receipt of this
order, for the brilliant achievements of the army under
command of Major-Gen. Sherman, in the State of Georgia,
and the capture of A •
tlanta The Secretary of War will
issue directions for the execution of this order.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

A Washington press despatch of the sth says—

Deserters from the rebel army report thut Atlanta is in
our possession, with a large number of prisoners ; that Rich-
mond papers contain accounts of a battle there on the 31st
of August, and that our troops were at first repulsed, but
finally drove the enemy back with heavy loss, including
three generals—viz., Anderson, Patten, and Hardee.

The Philadelphia Age of the sth has the following
review of General Serman's late movement ;

ho cannot prevent the trains which have hitherto run from
Montgomery to Atlanta communicating through the 11.Ius-
cope Railroad with the Macon Railroad, and thus with
Atlanta. Tho way is roundabout, but it is perfectly prac-
ticable.

It has been about 10 days since General Sherman began
a movement, much of which is still involved in mystery.
One corps of his army, under General Slocum, was left in
the trenches in front of Atlanta. The remainder was gra-
dually withdrawn, forming a long column on the south
bank of the Chattahoochee, and slowly marching down the
river. Parallel to the river, and about eight miles south
of it, is the Montgomery Railroad. East Point is eight
miles south-west of Atlanta, Red Oak is twenty miles,
and Fairburn twenty-five miles south-west: At East Point
the Macon Railroad begins. It runs south to Jones-
borough, and then south-east. Jonesborough is 20 miles
from Atlanta. But very little intelligence of Sherman's
movement was transmitted north, for during almost all the
time since it began Wheeler had the railroad and telegraph
to Nashville cut. and there was no commutication. Sher-
man marched his column down the river until the rear
reached Sandtown ten miles west of Atlanta. He then
swung the head of it around toward the east until it struck
the Montgomery Railroad at Fairburn. From Fairburn a
raiding party was sent across the country to Jonesborough,
on the Macon Railroad. The road was cut, but no large
force of the enemy found. On Aug. 28 Gen. Hood tele-
graphed to Richmond that Sherman's line extended from
Sandtown to Fairburn, thus being south-west of the city,
and Hood at once began moving his army to meet the Fede .
ral advance. Sherman's southern flank marched unopposed
up the Montgomery Railroad, from Fairburn towards At.,
lanta, until it reached Red Oak, 20 miles from the city.
Here the Confederates met the troops and they halted.
Sherman's southern flank was then marched south-east
from Sandtown towards East Point, 8 miles from Atlanta.
On Tuesday last, Aug. 30, Sherman's line extended from
Red Oak north-east, along the railroad towards East Point,
and his northern flank was pressing towards East Point from
the direction of Sand town. Hood, finding the enemy south-
west of him at once abandoned Atlanta, and gave Sherman
battle. A contest began on Tuesday afternoon along the
Montgomery Railroad, from Red Oak to East Point, a dis •
tance of 12 miles. Slocum, who had been left with one corps
in front of Atlanta, began to feel the enemy in front of him.
He found the city abandoned and on Friday morning en-
tered it. He at once announced the evacuation of the town,
and by a strange coincidence Wheeler was off the railroad
to Nashville just long enough to allow the despatch being
sent. Scarcely had it gone when Wheeler again cut the tele-
graph, and a veil once more hid Sherman's operations. Slo-
cum, having the enemy between him and Sherman's main
body, could not tell what was going on at East Point. He
knew a battle was being fought, for he heard the
cannon, but that was all. Up to Sunday
morning this was all the intelligence sent us.
This morning, however, we have later intelligence. Last
evening the telegraph was reopened, and a despatch from
Sherman himself received. The enemy on Tuesday had not
fought him very desperately, but gradually retreated across
the country towards Jonesborough. Sherman followed
them
He brought his entire army south of the Montgomery Rail-
road, and by Thursday had arrived within a mile of Jones-
enetermynorthern at Rough and
intrenched. They sent
which was Soon
out a reconnaissance, repulsed, and Sher-
man made Ms arrangementsfor an attack. The Confede-
rates by this time had retreated from Atlanta, and were
flank borough.wa 5
Macon Railroad.
drawn up in line on the Their southern
th
his worksin evacuating Atlanta, and
Ready, a village 13 miles from Atlanta. In front of their
Thereat o
b foundoroug thh:t
position Flint River flowed, and. the hills on its eastern side
were intrenched. It was this Position which Sherman at-
tacked on Thursday afternoon,. He carried the Confederate
works at Jonesborougb, capturmy 10 cannon and 1,000 pri-
destroyed some trains loaded with ammunition. The spoils
secured by Slocum were 14 cannon and the ruins of the Boners. Hood blew up
de-
stroyed trains. When the works at and
were car-
ried Hood abandoned his line on Flint River and by a hasty
march to the south-west moved the
portion of his army
which had been north of Tones borough to the east of the
place. He then retreated with all his forces to Lovejoy's,
six miles south-west of Jonesborough, on the railroad. Here
he took a new position. Sherman 'writes to Stanton, "his
army needs rest, and does not seem to intend an attack upon
the new Confederate position.
The Louisville Journal in its correspondence re-
views the topography of the neighbourhood of At-
lanta thus :

The New York Tizzies contains letters from its
correspondent near Atlanta to Aug. 25, asserting
that at that date, owing to Gen. Shermar,'s determi-
nttion to avoid extravagant expenditure of life, his
army was as strong as when it crossed the Cetta-
hooche, having made up in reinforcements-4,000
to 5,000 in all—what it lost before Atlanta, while
the Confederate army, he declares, was reduced by
many thousands, He describes some of the opera.
tions up to the date of his letter as follows :
Oar leader, hitherto so prompt in deciding upon flank
operations, has deliberated leng, and exhausted every other
means before making the decision necessary to this move-
ment. By extending his lines to the right and cutting the
Montgomery road he attenuated his front to the utmost
length in the endeavour to compass the city and sever its
lines of communication. The Decatur and Augusta road
was carefully watched by the cavalry, lest the enemy should
reopen it. General Sherman advanced his line so closely
around the invested city that at any time he could pour into
it the contents of 100 guns. In fact, for the past month our
cannon have allowed but very few hours to pass without
saluting the besieged city. The enemy however has made
no endeavour to evacuate, and to all appearance entertains
no intention to leave. While pushing the enemy in front,
Gen. Sherman has, by his cavalry, greatly annoyed his rear.
M'Cook and Stoneman were sent out toward Macon, with
what result is well known. The former was defeated, and
the latter captured, without any permanent injury to the
railroad having been effected, although many substantial
results were obtained in the way of captures of animals and
the destruction of munitions of war. The last attempt of
gallant General Kilpatrick,
by the
ejust returned from the most
twhhi so
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successful penetration into the enemy's lines yet effected.
Gen. Kilpatrick readied Jonesborough, on the Atlanta and
Macon road, on Friday night, and destroyed its shops and
Government depots. His command destroyed the rails and
some trestle-work along the line of the railroad for several
miles. The lighting up of the donde, illumined by the fires
far to the southward, caused by the burning of the rebel
storehouses, was plainly diocernible from our camps north
of Atlanta. As was expected, the enemy moved a number of
regiments of infantry by rail to attack General Kilpatrick.
By a desperate charge he broke the line enveloping him,
and sabred his way out, losing, perhaps, 500 men in killed,
wounded, and missing. His officers relate that 1,000 rebel
infantry surrendered in abject fear of his charging squa-
drons, but no time could be spared to attend to prisoners.
The success of the charge may be determined from the fact
that the ambulances and trains of the expedition were run
uninterruptedly through the ranks of the frightened foe.
This expedition was as successful as it is possible to make
expeditions of this character. It has satisfied Gen. Sher-
man that no permanent interruption or embarrassment of
the rebel rear can be thus accomplished. The nature of
the ground is such that only trifling damage can be done
to the railroad. He has, therefore, with great forethought
and consideration of all the pros and cons, determined
upon the movement now being made.

With regard to Hood's communications the cor-
respondent says :
" Notwithstanding what you may read in some of the
papers in regard to Hood's communication being entirely
cut off, I have only insisted in telling you the truth in re-
porting to you occasionally that auch is not and has not
been the case. Up to the last raid of Kilpatrick their trains
arrived and departed daily upon the Macon road. M'Cook
did remove a few rails from this road, but they were re-
placed almost as speedily as they were destroyed. The West
Point road, which leaves East Point (six miles due south
from Atlanta) has been badly cut many times. M'Cook cut
it in three places. Rosseau destroyed several miles of it,
and Kilpatrick has made two raids upon it in the last few
days; this does no great harm however,as it is merely a spe-
cial line, just the same as our railroad between Chattanooga
and Knoxville. Wheeler has cut this road badly in several
places, but the garrison of Knoxville can be supplied by
river as well as when there were three large corps there,
and if 'worst comes to worst,' our forces at Knoxville can be
abundantly supplied through Kentucky; Burnside and
Scofield both were, if you recollect, at one time. We must
not flatter ourselves that every time we dash upon a rebel
railroad, even if miles of track are removed, that the rebel
army has' gone up;' no indeed they stand these things as
well as we do; and to tell the truth, they manage to repair
all such damages as speedily nearly as we do ourselves. But
to return to the subject proper, Hood, up to the return of
Kilpatrick from his last raid, has experienced no trouble in
supplying his army with a sufficiency of food and powder.
Kilpatrick however, as I last informed you, did cut the road
in three places, and in all removed some five miles of rails
and then made a narrow but brilliant escape from half-a-
dozen large brigades of rebel cavalry, which had made his
capture a sure thing. In addition to this subject, I will
state that a week or 10 days ago, the rebel papers reported
that the bridges and culverts destroyed by Garrard on the
Augusta:road were almost in readiness to permit trains to
pass over them, By this time, no doubt, that road is in
running order."

The Columbus Tines, a Georgian paper, gives the
following picture of one of the scenes in Atlanta
during the siege :
" On Wednesday night a large 42 pound shell entered
the Presbyterian Church on Marietta-street, and, after pass-
ing through the pulpit, exploded in the basement, or Sun-
day-schoolroom. Several families living in the vicinity
having taken refuge there were more or less stunned and
injured by the explosion, and one man had his right arm
taken off, The scene in the room was frightful—it was
after midnight, and all the inmates were sleeping peacefully,
perfectly confident of security. Mothers caught up their
children hurriedly and rushed frantically into the streets,
screaming, though without any definite purpose in view,
save that of escaping for the time from the scene which had
struck such terror into their souls, and there, out upon the
open street, they stood crouching, with their little families
clinging around them,and knowing not where to fly for safety
Shell after shell in rapid succession came screaming through
the air, and as the light of each terrific explosion, like
lightning flashes, quivered over them, the figure of one
pale-faced mother could be discerned, with bare out-
stretched arms, vainly hoping to shield her little ones from
the falling fragments. Oh, the heartless cruelty of the foe I
Oh, the mighty depths of a mother's lave. Assistance
came at last, however, and the panic-stricken women and
children were huddled off into bomb-proofs of kind neigh-
bours in more secure localities, and the wounded properly
cared for."

"Sept. 4.

" General Sherman's official report of the capture
of Atlanta has just been received by this depart-
ment. It is dated 26 miles south of Atlanta, 6
o'clock yesterday morning, but was detained by the
blinking of the telegraph lines mentioned in my
despatch of last night. As already reported, the
army withdrew from about Atlanta, and on the
30th had make a break of the East Point-road, and
reached a good position from which to strike the
Macon-road. The right (Howard) near Jonesbo-
rough, the left (Schofield) near Rough and Ready,
and the centre (Thomas) at Conch's. Howard found
the enemy in force at Jonesborough, and intrenched
his troops, the salient within half a mile of the rail-
road. The enemy attacked him at 3 p.m., but was
easily repulsed, leaving his dead and wounded.
Finding strong opposition on the road, I advanced
the left and centre rapidly to the railroad, made a
good lodgment, and broke it all the way from the
Rough and Ready down to Howard's left, near
Jonesborough, and by the same movement I inter-
posed my whole army between Atlanta and the part
of the enemy intrenched in and around Jonesbo-
rough. We made a general attack on the enemy at
Jonesborough on the let of September, the 14th
Corps, General Jeff C. Davis, carrying the works
handsomely, with 10 guns and about 1,000 prison-
ers. In the night the enemy retreated south, and
we have followed him to another of his hastily
constructed lines near Lovejoy's station. Hood at
Atlanta, finding me on his road, the only one that
could supply him, and between him and a consider-
able part of his army, blew up his magazines in
Atlanta, and left in the night time, when the 20th
Corps, General Slocum, took possession of the place.
So Atlanta is ours, and fairly won. Since the sth
of May we have been in one constant battle or skir-
mish, and need rest. Our losses will not exceed
1200, and we have
possession of over 300 rebel dead,
260 wounded, and over 1,500 well.

" W. T. SHERMAN,
Major. General.
" MajoraGen. Dix, New York."
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" A later despatch from General Slocum, dated
at Atlanta last night (the 3d) at 9 p.m., states that
the enemy destroyed seven locomotives and 81 cars
loaded with ammunition, small arms and stores, and
left 14 pieces of artillery, most of them uninjured,
and a large number of small arms. Deserters are
constantly coming into our lines.

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" EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War."
" Sept. 6, 8 p.m.
"In honour of the capture of Atlanta Grant yes-
terday ordered a salute to be fired with shotted
guns from every battery bearing upon the enemy.
Nothing has been received by the department from
Atlanta since the 4th inst., nor anything south of
Nashville, on account of the derangement of the
telegraph lines by the prevailing lines. No move•
ments of importance have taken place in the She-
nandoah VaN3r.
"EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War.
Major-General Dix."

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city is abandoned, while nine miles directly south may be
found cedar bluffs, which may prove to be the theatre of
desperate battles, should we fail to get Hood in our hands
before he reaches these strongholds of nature. Rumours
reach us that already are works in these places being pre-
pared for the reception of the rebel forces, should they be
obliged to give up the place they now occupy.
The _Richmond Sentinel observes :

"8 10 p.m.

" A despatch from General Grant, just received,
gives a statement from the Richmond Examiner of
this morning, that John Morgan was surprised and
killed, and his staff captured at Grenville, Tennes-
see, yesterday. An unofficial despatch received by
this department this morning from Lexington,
states that General Gillen had officially reported
the surprise and defeat of Morgan at Greensville ;
that John Morgan was killed and the staff captured;

From East Point—about three miles beyond which the
Yankees now are—to West Point is 81 miles. From West
Point to Opeluka, where the Muscogee Railroad strikes the
Montgomery and West Point Railroad, the latter being
continuous with the Atlenta and West Point Railroad, the
distance, we should judge, is about 15 miles. At any rate,
it is hard upon 100 miles from the junction of the Muscegee
to Fairburn or East Point. Sherman's army must be very
long indeal if they can reach Ulto far, and mesa they eau

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The New York Tribune gives a biography of the
guerilla General Morgan in these terms :
"John 11. Morgan, the notorious rebel scout, and com-
mander of the rebel rangers, was born near Lexington,
Kentucky. From his boyhood he was noted for his skill
and recklessness in horsemanship, In September, 1861, he
assumed the command of a band of guerillas in the vicinity
of Pilot Knob, Missouri, where he shot down a number of
Union pickets. Ile next appeared in the neighbourhood of
Bacon Creek, Kentucky, at the head of his band, burnt the
railroad bridge, almost within sight of the Union head-
quarters, and escaped before our forces recovered from their
surprise. In the month of March, 1862, he boldly attacked
our lines on the Franklin Pike, Ohio, and somewhat de-
layed the march of our troops. He afterwards disguised
himself as a farmer and entered our lines, dining at the
best hotels, and escaped without discovery, after obtaining
the information ho needed. On onother occasion he nearly
caught General Nelson in a trap he had laid for him. Be •
tween Louisville and Nashville he stopped a railroad train
and took several prisoners. During the winter of 1862-3
he commanded a cavalry division of Gen. Bragg's army,and
greatly annoyed General Rosencranz' outposts and com-
munications. With him were several smart telegraph ope-
rators, who would attach wires to the telegraph lines, take
off the messages coming from the headquarters of the
army, and send back counterfeit ones. To these operations
many of the Union defeats in Kentucky are attributed. In
the summer of 1863 he headed an extensive raid through-
out Indiana and Ohio, in which he was, captured with a
large number of his command. In Nov. 1863, he with six
of his officers adroitly escaped from the Ohio Penitentiary,
after a great deal of persevering labour in undermining the
prison, Morgan was a tall, heavy man, who usually rode a
black horse. He was e bold, daring, and merciless thief and
murderer, and his followers were like hire. Thoy would
ride into towns and cities, capture the chief officers in
broad daylight, having been informed by the Copperheads
of their whereabouts, and then ride off before the , citizens
had recovered from their surprise. Morgan was by pro-
fession a negro trader, a gambler, and a libertine. Where-
ever ho was known he was regarded as a low-bred fellow
whom no lady could recognise. In several street fights
he had gained the reputation of an assassin rather than
that of a hero. Yet this wretch was the fellow upon whom
the Secesh women of Kentucky and Sec essia lavished their
brightest smiles and most liberal favours."
The following account is given of a cavalry fight
at Berryville between por_tions of Sheridan's and
Early's armies, in which the Federals claim a vic-
tory. It is dated from the Headquarters of the
Middle Military Division, September 4
General Torbart's cavalry corps, which were encamped
at Rippon's store, on the Charlestown and Berryville pike,
lett camp at nine o'clock on Friday nig ht, and proceeded to
Berryville, reaching there at midnigl it, where they went
into camp until daybreak next mouth ig, when they moved
out through Berryville on the Winch ester pike, taking the
road to the left, about seven miles bf yond Berryville, and

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were still advancing when last heard irons ut ten o'clock yes-
terday morning, meeting with little or nu oppwition. The
infantry, consisting of Crook's command, the Gth and 19th
Uorps, broke camp at 4 o'clock yesterday morning, and moved
in three parallel columns towards Berryville ; Crook's com-
mand was on the left, the 19th Corps in the centre, and the
Gth:on the right. Crook's command reached Berryville first,
about 12 o'clock in the morning, and rested in line of battle
with arms stacked for two hours, while pickets wore being
posted on the different roads leading from Berryville. The
23d Ohio was stilt out on Snicker's Ferry road and the 36th
Ohio on the Winchester pike, running to the right from
Berryville. Crook's command went into camp, and had just
finished pitching tents at 4 o'clock when heavy skirmishing
was heard on the picket line. The whole command rapidly
turned out, and was formed and moved to the support of
the pickets, who had been driven from behind some en-
trenchments which they had occupied. The 36th Ohio and
9th Virginia were formed and charged the enemy, driving
them out of the entrenchments. A desperate struggle then
ensued, the rebels being determined, if possible, to regain
possession of the entrenchments. With this object in view
they massed no less than two divisions, and hurled them
with their accustomed ferocity against our gallant little
band,which was supported by bothDuvall's and Thorburn's
divisions. They were handsomely repulsed every time they
charged. The conflict lasted long after the sun had set,
and artillery firing was kept up till 9 o'clock. The whole
army has been busily engaged all night in digging en-
trenchments and throwing up breastworks, and now occupy
a strong position. The whole of the fighting, so far, has
been done by Crook's command, which captured 50 pri-
soners and a stand of colours. Our loss will amount to
about 300 killed and wounded, while that of the enemy is
at least one-third greater. Heavy firing was heard yester-
day in the vicinity of Bunker's-hill, supposed to be Averill
advancing."

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