Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1863-05-06
From the Chronicle 6 Sentinel.


From Richmond pu,ers VIC are enabled to COM;
!prehond irr.lligib:y the ~situa.ion of affairs OH tho,
|Rappah.nnock. 1t is uuqaestiouabie tha. tho;
%,cnemy's advance has been made under the misap-;;
,prehensiop that . very largs,por!ion of our troops
had been Withdrawn from fredericksburg. lie,
has prubabiy learned by this;tilns how many men
we have. there. A correspondent Of the Philade.-''
.pbia Press writes:
"From q%uartersi entitled to credit, 1t is stated
3thst only a picket guard, has heen left behind, and;
1.-THE statement is generally credited"
The same writer says that Gen. Stoneman's ad-,
vance
!: "Was uerely to ascertain the locality Of the
amain body of the rebels. and to discover whether,
sluy considerable furce has been sent to the She
s~ann1oah Valley. AS part of the rrogramrEe,
I he destruction of the railroad communicative
with Lynch6urs aud other Virginia localities was,
also embraced
4 a plan was arranged for the night of the 10th
sof April, when the infantry, properly supported
! we're to have crossed the Rappahannock at the
f%salnep int crossedhg Burnside in December, while
Stevenson with his cavalry and light artillery
awere operating in another direction but heavy
asains prevented its execution.
/ The crossing on the nigh. of the 2Sth of April
slast. and the skirmi.h that followed, were in this
awise
4 . Under cover ola dense fog, tho enemy succeed
a.d In laying down two Of their ponsoon bridges
Cover which they crossed a force, vAriously cstima-
Strd at from 5000 to 10000. At tho time OF the
a~crossiny the i3th Georges regimOut were on picket
=. l. 81 Daan Run aul a, hrial n Thk en-
4 >ue,l. which las ed from daylight until 10 o'clock,
lat which time the Gzorgians were relieved by the
18th Louisiana regiment. Our picket force h9d
Sfallen hack from the river to the road running
Sparallel with the Rappahannock.
q Tho mouth of Deep Run, ut which, this crossing
3y.,ssrf!ected is about one and q half miles below
fredericksburg. and is the same point Mt which
g.hat portion Of the enemy's forces crossed that
a.ugag.d the RICH; wing Of our army in the battle
3of the 18th of Docrishcr. The lamb ON this side
Gin the ;nmcdiare vicinity of the river is q leveI
splain of nearly two miles in width. n~cross.wbich
sthe enemy must advance to attack our position on
q the hills iu the rsighborhoud Of Hnwilton's Cross
Sing. It was as they advanced over this plain 10
december that they suffered such terrible loss.
q The impression prevails that the eucmy's nd
avsnOo Is directed Immediately against Gordons-
syille.
q The Enquirer states that an aid of ono OF the
SYankee generals was captured on the previous
together with a correspondent Of tho New
gYork W.rid who was in company with him, nnd
3 snspucts from the silence of its own correspondent
There, that there has been Z" a sort of involuntary
d The Examiner says: Wo entertain firm conf
in the army now on the hills around Fred
The army is the best tho Confedera.
Scy possesses. 1t occupies q position of eItraordi
Il nary strength. There is no point from Port Roy
3 Il to Culpcpper at which it would not fight TIT
s .neiiny with advantages which could only be over
Scoure by superior trots'a, in superior numbers, al
Tter IN enormous loss of life. But the Confederate
n .r,uy will, with these advantage, engage inferior
3troops and if resolutcly and ably handled, as ii
Twill be, the contest cuu scarcely end in anythin:
solse than another saoguipsry defeat Of tho Fed,
8 oral forces.