Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1863-05-13
Details ofthe Late Fight on the Rnppa-
hammock.
RIcnN oND, May G.

and co"structed un abattis, winch, alter sever
fighting, was carried BY our troups..
Among the prisoners is Brig. GIN: Hays
who commanded q Brigade in COUGHS corps.
The prisoners represent some forty regiments
mostly foreigners.
On tlc Lower en- Of the line, where GIN.
Early commanded, there was some hard hight
Ing ouSuHday.
In the AFTERNOON Murye's Heights were car
ried by the enemy, and = number OF M,ssis'
s~ippians captured. Six pieces Ut the Wash
ingtnn Artillery were taken.
Some lime Mor:dry morning the hght was
renewed, the Heights rrtakeu. AID the pieces
recnptIred, with a uumoer of Others.
Five Yankee batteries are reported capiur
ed IN the upper line. ann.
From euo'hersource I learn that ABOUT 6OOO
prisoners in all have been capt,rei.
Gon.. A p. Hil hos rcsum.d command
Gen. Heath is not much hurt, aud Is still III
c .mrnand.
Cen. MCGOWAN was slightly wounded.
The 18th Mississippi killed more than their
own lumber.
Col. Stafford, of the l4th Louisiana, was
killed also, Col. Walker, of the 10Th Firg'-
mia, and Col. Mallory, Of the 55th Virginia.
Most of our casualties in the battles around
charlottesville were slight wounds In the
hand and arm but lew, comparatively, were
killed. The l"ss of the enemy was equal to
three of any previous battle of,the war. Ihe
fields were literally strewn With their dead.
The prisoners captured were mostly two years
and nine months men, whose time of service
would soon expire ; they say that they were
put in front by Hooker at every point.
RICHMOND, May 7th-lO o'cl Jck.-The il
lowing dispatch has been received tonight:
CHAScELioRsvILLE, Mey 9TH.
To His Excellency Jefferson Davis:
After driving Sedgewick across the Kappa.
hammock on the night Of the 4th, returned
ON the 5th to Characteristic. The march
was delayed blythe storm, which continued
all the night following.
In placing the troops in position, on the
morning of the 9Th, to attack Hooker, it ives
sscertained that he had abandoned his forti-
fed position. TIE line of skirinisiers pressed
forward until they came within range of the
enemy,s batteries on the north side of the
Ra~ppahannock, which, from the configurat o l
~; Is . nlateLs z@sSsPee3ra-.siN
1OsS OF u few additional prisoners.
(Signed,) r. E. LEE.
RICHMOND, May S.-The trains have resum
ed their regular trips to Fredericksburg. Five
trains arrived last night with the wounded.
was the severest that has occurred for twelve
months.
We captured about ten thousand prisoners
in the late battles, with many valuable horses,
wagons and a large quantity of ammunition
and small arms.
All is quiet at fredericksburg. Barksdale
is re-occupying his old position, aud the en-
envy is opp site, as before the battle.
Col. Griffin is not killed, but captured.
Sickless is reported killed.
There is a report current that a N. Y. Her
aid Of late date received, conceies the dee
OF Hooker. The news caused great excite
ment in New York.
The Washington Chronicle, of the 4th,
publishes an order of Hooker, dated April
s0th, expressing to the army his heartfelt sat
islactlon thar the operations of the last three
days had determined that the enemy must
ingloriou,ly 6y or come out from behind his
deienses aud give us battle on our own
ground.
The Chronicle says not a word about the
detea; Of the Yankee army at CLancellors-
Vile.
The Chronicle says Lincoln has issued a
draft for 100000 men. "This call upon the
nation in her great agony should reach every
heart"
RICHMOND. May 9.
Two thousand prisoners arrived here this
morning. The same number will be here to.
night. The mail train arrived from Freder-
icksburg at eight P. NJ.
Passengers report Frank P. Blair, Jr.
among the captured. Tue oath of allesi alice !
was administered at his request.
The Washington Chronicle Of the 9th says
the Vallandignam was arrested 1.-THE rest ui
the sentence uninteiligible
The 6. S. steamship. Alabama had destroy.
ed the Ship Pupjaub..
Correspondence relative to the grea: battle
is published With seventeen .captions-"Reb-
shattered at Chancellorsville.;;' position
impregnable," "Sedgwiek meets with sue
etc.
Writers speak Of Hooker's great general
ship and Napoleonic qualities. They say their
entertainments at. Charlottesville we're tho
best they ever had.
A corps (unintslligible) was denounced as
for throwing down their arms. and
from Rhodes Brigade.
The night attack Of. the rebels was most
OF the war. On. Monday the isht
Vas desperate. The rebels threw themselves
N the muzzles ofourguns. Our ammunition
ave out.
The position was held at the point of the
,]ayouet, and they fell back in good order to
Juancellursville.
Brig. Gen. Barry is, reported killed ON
Wednesday - Howard, and two others
..unded. The Medical Director in Rriney's
rps was killed. Al Yanks.
From Tie Rich MpHd Enquirer, Nay Z.
FROM THE RAppAliaSxocK.-A train, with
r.uml er Of our wounded from the battle ut
charlottesville, arrived at Richmond, May /,
They state that the lighting ON Saturday
nd Sunday last was desperate. They als1 |
ale that u. u. Hills division, Commanded S
y Briga,iier- General Rhodes, OF Alabama. /,
mi Trimble's division, 1.-THE t=o. divisions {
imposed Of Alabama, Georgia. Virginia, and f
aryland-troops, under the command of Gen. '
,,kson.) marched fourteen miles on Satur.
". aud reached the enemy's rear Saturday u
.,oop Attacking. the enemy in three I,