Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1863-06-17
The Firht.at .Culpeper, Va:

CuLPEpER, June l1.-The enemy threw
heavy cavalry force, :sgilh artillery and infan
Try support, across filer Rspfahannock yes,er-
Slay, aud alvanced.on Brandy Station and
Strasburs. They were met by our cavalry
and a fight ens,led, Thichccntinned till night
when the enemy retired across the river:
Col. Williams OF the Second North Carolina
Regiment, Lieut.. Col, Hampton, Of the Sec.
ond South Carolina, Captain Jones, OF The
First South Carolina, and Captain Farley. o.
Stuart's S.nG, were killed. Colonel Butler
of the Second South Carolina, lost bis !, g
Captain Fox, of the First South Carolina
badly wounded. Captain Rich, Cobb's LIE.
eion, taken prisoner. Gen. W. II. T: Lee
slightly wounded.
Ne took three guns and 200 prisoners. OIL
l5ss is about 400 in killed, wounded and pris
oners.
Another version Of the affair is as follows
1t seems that the e%ne,ny's cavalry, ten
thousand strong, having crossed the Kappa
hammock on Monday light at a point above
Kelley's Ford, not before known to be florida
bic, at en- early hour on Tuesday morning,
and fell suddenly upon orr cavalry camp 1T
Brandy Station, a point on tn" Orange and
Alexandria railroad, five miles beyond Gull
peLer Court House.
They killed or captured our pi.kets and
surprised two of our regiments, whilst the men
we're at breakfast and the horses grazing.
TIE two. regiments fed aud were holly pur-
sued by the. enemy, who took three or four
hundred prisoners and as many horses. The
pursuit was finally checked BY the arrival Of
our reiniorccments. A sanguinary and des-
perate battle then took place; which lasted,
some say an hour. others all day. Much of
the fighting was hand-to-hand, a fact in part
authenticated by the number of sabre wounds
given and received. The result ofthi> engage.
mrnt was that the enemy was driven from
that field. The fight was repeatedly renewed
by US till six O'Clock in the evening, at which
tiu,e the enemy retired, or was driven across
the Roppahannock.
After our men recovercd'from their surprise
we gained favorable position, which was held
tempts were made by the enemy to dislodge
our ~lorces.' About the time our infantry-ar-
rived the enemy gave way, and pursuit was
made By our cavalry, and some three or four
hundred prisoners takea. This was late in
the afternoon, and when, perhaps, our cavalry
was loo much'exbausted BY the %iucesant fight
ing of the day fully to follow up the advantage
gained.
From the meagre accounts we already have
we are leo to conclude that the fight Of Tues
day was one of the heaviest cavalry battles
that has occurred during the war, and per
haps the sew, rest ever fought in this country.
An officer who took part in the battle repre-
sents that We lost not less than seven Colo
nels in the engagement. The same authority
states that a regiment of our cavalry was dis
mounted and thrown forward as sbarpshooters
TO operate against the artillery of the enemy,
and pick off their gunners. This force was
charged By a largely superior force of the en-.
envy, aad, being without bayonets,with which
t, meet the charge, they. fired and then re-
treated. In the retreat a large number were
cut of, and many of them made prisoners.
The regimant consisted Of nearly seven hun
drcd men. The horses Of the dismounted men
were stampeded by the shells of the enemy,
and many of them had not been recovered al
last accounts. 1t is stated that our loss in
horses will reach from 500 to 600.