The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1863-05-19

of the Stonewall brigade; General Nichols was
wounded in the leg, having previously lost an arm
at Winchester; General McGowan was wounded
slightly; Gen. Hoke was wounded in the arm.
Gems. Slocumb, Howard and O'Nein, of the Yam
kee army are reported killed, and Fighting Joe"
said to be slightly wounded.
We gather the following items from our FIX
Orig. Gen. Ramseurs Brigade composed of the
I'd, 4th, l4th and 30th N G Troops, was compli
mented by the Corps and Division Commanders to
which it belongs, for the efficient service rendered
by it on the 4th of May.
! Gen. Longstreet did not participate in the late
great victories over Hooker. He was not present
Two OF his divisions were there and maintained
their welwon fame
Inc Yankee prisoners admit that they were aw-
fully beaten, but say that it was owing to the fact
which they never to proclaim, that thew have
no generals. They believe that their troops arc
as good as ours, but that we beat them by the su
! perior skill of our generals.
! One of the Yankee officers brought to Rich
mond told gentleman who was in conversation
with him that Burnside was not beaten at Frede-
ricksburg, he was repulsed, but that Hooker had
gotten 'perhaps the d-est drubbing that a
| general had"
| All of our troops are jubilant over what they
consider as beyond all comparison the greatest
victory of the war. They say the victory of the
18th of December was not circumstance to it.
| Gen. Hooker (the yankee commander) was
stunned and thrown down by shell which shat
tered the pillar of porch he was leaning against at
Charlottesville.
Tile Losses Of tie enemy.-From the best
ces OF intelligence at our command, we arc enabled
to estimate the losses Of the enemy in the recent
battles near Fredericksburg, at twenty thousand.
Among the killed we learn are the following gene
raj officers: Brig. Gen. Seth Williams, Adj Genl
to Hooker, and formerly Adj. Gen to Mcclellan;
and Brig Generals Daniel Z. Sckles, Barry, Rug.
er, Howard and Brney
FURTHER PARTICULARS
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch
Let it be remembered that the distance over
which the battle ragged and auctua:ed like sea
of fire from Wednesday morning until the We'd
nesday following was fifteen miles Commencing
its muttered thunders at Deep Run, its real storm
broke forth above Banks ford, and eliminated in
the splendid fight and triumphant victory at
Charlottesville. Gen. Lee said the enemy's
position could not have been stronger. They had
three lines of entrenchments. 1t is said Nc
Clellan there experimenting the ditchugs.
In every attack our men were successful. The
enemy were driven in panic from their breastworks
Gen. Posey's command alone took three miles of
entrenchments. On Friday, McLaws' troops at
tackled and drove the enemy from a point seven
miles from town and commenced the attack at
Charlottesville, ten miles from town, on Satur-
day. The nig ght attack was made jackson BY
the enemy. Their repulse was complete and their
destruction immense.
The prisoners captured, the stores destroyed
&e., l unable to state accurately. The most
desperate fight, however, on Monday evening
Sedgwick's 20, 900 Yankees who crossed below and
at Fredericksburg and got Maryes Hill after losing
three times as much the force which defended
it, swept up the plank road and met their fate on
Monday, when Early's Anderson's, and McI.aws'
forces enclosed them in a crescent of fire aud
swept them back towards the river That closed
the debate. 1t became question of safely
recrossing the Rappahannock. AT Banks ford
McIaws alone took 600 prisoners and 10 officers
His horse was struck well as himself on Sunday
The eneny's loss must be $4,000. We have
taken at least 40 900 small arms and 26 cannon
One good result is the proof afforded Of our i'm
proved artiilery-Major Latimer, with two bate
ries, drove the men from Yankee battery oppo-
site the Bernard House and made them abandon
their guns. Major Braxton, at Charlottesville,
twice compelled the Yankees to leave their guns
McClellans boast of superior artillery is exploded
The Yankees attacked Marye's Hill early
Sunday morning and were repulsed About ii
a. m. they reconstructed their shattered columns
and advanced from the plankroad ana from Fred
ericksburg, aud obliquely along Hazel Run, with
out firing gun, and took the Heights. Two or
.oae of Barksdale's Mississippi regiments and 16
guns of the Washington Artillery could not with
stand the overwhelming attack on 10th fanks and
in front. The enemy got six guns, and turned
them on retreating troops. 1T is reported that
flag Of truce was granted after the first repulse
of the enemy, by which they learned the small
force defending the heights Nearly all the 18th
Mississippi prisoners 1t is said the Missis-
sippians clubbed muskets and fought, but in vain.
They lost the heights. Gen. Early and Gen.
Pendleton were in command. Our line of battle
was reformed three miles up the Telegrap ph road,
at Wyatts run, and recaptured the Heights. The
Federals, in their attack on Marye's heights, were
commanded by Gems. Sedgewick and Gibbon.
The Yankee prisoners.-Among the prisoners
who fell into our hands is a son Of Francis p.
Blair, the Black Republican member of Congress
from the ST. Louis district in Missouri gentle
man who present at the time informs us that
young Blair, after his capture, asked permission
to take the oath of allegiance to the Confederate
Government, which was granted, and the son of
one of the bitterest enemies of the South volunta-
rily became a citizen of the Confederacy
The Yankee officers seem to have high respect
for our infantry. One of them remarked that the
cavalrymen were not as well built courageous
as their cavalry; but the infantry were too des- /
perate for them "For," said be- "when the
ragged infantry come upon battery it is no use
TO try to hold it; and if Napoleon's men we're be-
lind n they could not stnn them Thav ara oxo,.,