Litchfield enquirer., 1863-05-07
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The Rebellion.

WEcoNpEssE the full and interesting report Iof the great battles on the Rappahannock up to late hour Sunday night, from the New York papers.
 The Times says :-" There was terrible fighting on Saturday and Sunday at Chancel- lorsville, the general results of which were in our favor, and the promise on Sunday evening was that further hostilites would end in the full triumph of our arms.
 Gen. Hooker had thrown his army across the Rappahannock, taken position on the left of the rebel intrenchments at Fredericks- burgh thus compelling the enemy to leave his defences and fight on ground which Hooker himself had chosen, and had fought two of the severest and bloodiest battles of the war, with, out attaining any absolutely decisive result, but achieving such successes as render the en- emy's defeat or withdrawal nearly certain.
 Recovering himself with mastery prompti tude from what was we'll high crushing dsas- ter on Saturday night, when Jackson succeeded
 
 in turning our right wing and routing the Eleventh corps, tine battle was renewed on Sun day, and though not absolutely decisive, yet he has pnt him decidedly on the winning side.
 This battle is to the rebels by far the blood- fest they have yet had, while our sacrifice is much less We have taken -four Mousand pris- eners with loss on our side of not tenth of that number.
 The result of Sundays operations on the left is stil! more brilliant. The powerfully de tended heights in the rear of Fredericksburgh, the attempt to take which cost us so dearly last December, have, by the movement on Charlottesville, been turned. and after being gallantly assailed by Sedgwick's corps, are now ours. Details of the operations of the force below Fredericksburgh are also interesting. They are to Sunday afternoon. On Saturday morning the lower crossing was abandoned, in accord ancs with the general plan, and our forces were moved up nearer the city. During the after noon it became evident that the rebels were abandoning the heights back of the city, but skrmishing still continued between the pickets, which became quite severe as our forces ad yanced to take possession of the Richmond road-a movement which was successfully ac complished. On Sunday morning very heavy eannonading commenced at o'clock all along the rebel front, which was replied to with eff feet by our artillery. At 71a o'clock the rebels were compelled to abandon their riae-pits above Fredericksburgh, and by 91s o'clock pontoon bridge had been thrown across at the city, and the rebels had removed their guns from the earthworks above, which were soon afterward occupied by our forces. This advantage was pushed, during the afternoon, to such good purpose that the second ridge behind the city was also carried, and at last accounts our vic torious troops had pushed on some four miles in the direction of the point at which Gen. Hooker was engaged with the main body oi the rebel forces. The casualties during these two days operations, especially at Chancellors- vile, have, of course, been heavy-how heavy it is impossible ow to say.
 The rebel army is now. therefore, between two columns, seperated but by an interval of five miles-the one hundred thousand strong the other twenty thousand. It will be strange if, between the upper and the neither millstone, the accursed thing is not ground to atoms. 1 TIE LATEST.
 l The World states that the battle was renew ed on Monday, and was most desperate af fair. The rebels made series of superhumar attacks on all points of our lines, but were re pulsed with terrific slaughter. Our forces have destroyed the bridges in the rear of the rebels across the Mattapony river; thus completel ) eating off all retreat.
 Gen. Stahl teiegraphed Monday to Gen Hentzelman, that portion of the force of cav airy under his command had. in the morning, heavy fight near Warrenton Junction, with th' rebel Black Horse cavalry and Mosby's ana other guerilla forces, ending in the utter rou of the rebels, with heavy losses in killed, woun ded and prisoners. Our force made terrific charge upon the rebels, which completely dis persed them in every direction.
 Rebel reports received uia Murfreesboro state that Gen. Dodge has advanced some distance east of Tuscumbia, and had encountered the rebel Gen. Forrest, with whom he had fight on the 29th ult.. Gen. Grant is said to bo at Union Church. on the Natchez and Hazelhurst road, supposed to be moving on Natchez. Gen. Banks has captured Alexandria, on the Red River, and naval battle has. taken place at Grand Gulf, on the Mississippi.
 We have reports of 8 repslse paar Fair. | mount, Western Virginia. The Rebels have destroyed the bridges on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Cheat River, Fairmount, and other places. The story is that Gen. Mulligan has been defeated by l2,ooo rebels, and has i lost 250 men in killed, wounded and prisoners. He got of all his artillery. The rebels are said to have all left the line of the Railroad, moving southward. National forces are in pur. suit. and endeayoring to intercept them.