Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1863-11-16
The News of the Week.

1t VIII be seen by reference to tie
news from our armies in this paper, that
military operations are in great activity
again. At tina first of the week, we were
cheered with the intelligence that Brig.
Gen. w. E. Jones and Col. Gilmcr, un-
der Major Gen. Robt. Ransom, had cap
tured at RosersVille, Tennessee, eight
hundred and fifty prisoners, four pieces
Of artillery, two stands Of c%olorS, sixty
wagons and one Thousand animals, with
a loss of only two killed and eight woun-
ded on our side.
On the next day, however, this good
news was countorbalancsd by a report
that two whole brigades of the army of
Northern Virginis-Hay0s' brigade Of
Louisianians and Hoke's brigade of North
Carolinians-had been "gobblcd up" by
an overwhelming force from Meadss ar
my. Snbscquent information, however,
snow the disaster not to have been so
bad as at first represented, butbad enough
in ali conscience. We give in other COL
umns as full and accurate accounts of the
affair az we have been able to procure
from tho Virginia papers, bat regret we
have received ,so account from any North
3. Car~sliassolaRr, ~sivingfup PARTICULARS Of
taa participation Of our boys in the affair.
We have however had a conversation
with an officer ia the army lust frem the
scens of ~aotien, and who Was a partial
participant in the engagement, happening
at the point on his way homo on furloush.
lie iRforms US that instead Of two whole
hrigades, amounting to five or ak thou
sand men, being captured, the whole
pumber taken does not exceed nine or
ton hundred. He says Hayes brigade of
Louisianians and tworegiments of Hoke's
brigade Of North Carolinians, were sent
to Rappahanaock Station, with instruc-
mtions to hold that point at all hazards
our whole force not exceeding three
thousand mcu. Our troops were behind
life pits and had a fair fire at the enemy,
who drove in our pickets and advanced
upon them in numbers of fifteen or
~ thousand. Our troops fired upon
them with terrible execution, pilin. up
the yankee dead in frightful numbers,
and continued to Gre upon them until
their ammunition gave out, and then a
desperate haad-te-hand conflict ensued.
In the meantime, our little band finding
, themselves so largely outnumbsred and
about to be hanksd On every side, began
to look for 4 way Of escape, but unfortu-
nately many were so completely ~surroun-
died that they were compelled to surren-
Ger. Nearly a thousand of Hayes brig
ale rads their escape and some few of
&c two North Carolina regiments. Our
- in killed and wounded is said to be
out 800; prisoners 900 to LOCO. The
,temy's loss in killed alone, is belis> ell
- be nearly as many as our entire loss
10 killed, wounded and prisoners.
The enemy, at last accountS were ad
v~aucing upon Gen. Lee ia heavy force,
and another general engagement will take
place soon between the armies Giles and
Meade, if it has not taken place already.
We have but little fears of the result.
There has also recently been 4 severe
fight near LSvisburs in western Virginia,
in which our forces under Gems. Jackson
aud Echols were forced to fall back be-
1,re a superior force under the ysnke,
,erql Ayerill. The fighting is repor
$ desperate on both sides, and the
dsubt heavy. All the particular.
.ght that We have seen will b,
another column of this paper
turg is again in the hands Of tn