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came in sight of the party immediately fled, and on meeting their comrades, they all joined and came back, and found the colored troops prepared to give them battle. Captain Hitchcock, not knowing the strength of his opposers, fell back a short distance, and the enemy rallied and charged furiously again. The rebel captain ordered Hitchcock to surrender, firing at the same time his re-been; to "remember the glorious cause you are volver at Corporal John Heron, who dropped un- fighting for, remember the bleaching bones of hurt to his knees, and sent a ball through the mis- your comrades killed on the bloody fields of Doncreant's breast, which proved fatal. Rebel citi- elson, Corinth, Champion Hill, and Vicksburgh, zens state that the opposing force numbered fifty or perished by disease during the past two years men, and acknowledge their loss to be one captain, of hardships and exposure-and swear by these sergeant, and two privates killed, and eight wound-imperishable memories never, while life remains, ed. The Union loss was as follows:

made for itself—a history to be proud of; a history never to be forgotten; for it is written as with a pen of fire dipped in ink of blood on the memories and in the hearts of all. He besought them always to prove themselves as loyal in principle, as valiant in arms, as their record while under his command would show them to have

to prove recreant to the trust high heaven has confided to your charge." He assured them of his continued sympathy and interest in their well

Killed-George Diegs, company H; Lewis Taylor, company H; Peter Grant, company H; Samuel Moden, company G. Wounded-William Gal-being, no matter how great a distance might seplin, company B; Henry Brown, company H; Mil Beckford, company H; William Hegdon, company H; Zeno Callahan, company H; Duncan Turner, company H; John Bodly, company H. -JOHN C. CRANE, acting quartermaster at Nashville, Tenn., in a note to Andrew Johnson, Governor of that State, says:

arate them; and closed by heartily recommending them to their future commander, his own companion in arms, and successor, BrigadierGeneral Leggett.

“The bearer, (colored,) Jane Woodall, is my house-servant. She is a slave, claimed by Christopher Woodall, a resident of Tennessee. It is said that he is disloyal, and on a previous occasion the military authorities prevented him from taking her.

"Has Mr. Woodall any right, under the President's Proclamation, and military law, to take

November 14.-The farmers of Warren, Franklin, and Johnson counties, N. C., having refused to pay the rebel tax in kind by delivering the government's tenth to the quartermaster-general, James A. Seddon, the Secretary of War, issued the following letter of instructions to that officer:

their tenth at dépôts not more than eight miles "It is true the law requires farmers to deliver from the place of production; but your published order requesting them for the purpose of supplying the immediate wants of the army, to deliver at “It strikes me not, as we have taken posses-than eight miles, and offering to pay for the transthe dépôts named, although at a greater distance sion of rebel property without compensation. Requesting your decision in the premises, I am, Governor, very respectfully, your obedient ser

this woman?

vant."

THE GOVERNOR'S RESPONSE.

"EXECUTIVE OFFICE,
"NASHVILLE, TENN., November 13, 1863.)

'Respectfully returned. If the girl referred
to within is willing to return with Mr. Woodall,
she should be allowed to go, but, if not willing,
she will not be compelled to go with him.
"ANDREW JOHNSON,

able that no good citizen would refuse to comply

portation in excess of that distance, is so reason

with it.

"You will, therefore, promulgate an addition to your former order, requiring producers to deliver their quotas at the dépôts nearest to them by a specified day, and notifying them that in case of their refusal or neglect to comply therewith, the Government will provide the necessary transportation at the expense of the delinquents, and collect said expense by an immediate levy on their productions, calculating their value at the rates allowed in cases of impressment.

"Military Governor." -In accordance with an order from the War Department, Major-General John A. Logan surrendered his command of the Third division of the Seventeenth army corps. In addressing the officers and soldiers of the different brigades, he "All persons detected in secreting articles subreminded them of the history the division had ject to the tax, or in deceiving as to the quantity

"If it becomes necessary to furnish transportation, the necessary teams, teamsters, etc., must be impressed as in ordinary cases.

produced by them, should be made to suffer the confiscation of all such property found belonging to them.

"The people in the counties named, and in fact nearly all the western counties of that State, have ever evinced a disposition to cavil at, and even resist the measures of the Government, and it is quite time that they, and all others similarly disposed, should be dealt by with becoming rigor. Now that our energies are taxed to the utmost to subsist our armies, it will not do to be defrauded of this much-needed tax. If necessary, force must be employed for its collection. Let striking examples be made of a few of the rogues, and I think the rest will respond promptly."

-MAJOR-GENERAL SCHOFIELD, from the headquarters of the Department of the Missouri, at St. Louis, issued an important order regarding the enlisting of colored troops.

mand, in Tennessee and Mississippi be closed,
and that no goods of any description be allowed
to pass out, nor any thing be brought in, except
fire-wood and provisions, by any citizen, without
the written order of some general officer, each of
which permits, and the reason for granting the
same, will be reported to these headquarters, and
for the necessity of which each officer granting
will be held rigidly responsible.

II. All merchants, and others doing business,
will be held responsible for knowledge of the
residence of the parties to whom they sell, and
the sale of merchandise to persons beyond the
lines of pickets will be punished with the highest
rigor known to the laws of war.

III. All persons residing under the protection of the United States, and physically capable of military duty, are liable to perform the same in a country under martial law. Especially in the city of Memphis, where it is known many have November 15.-Conrad Posey, a brigadier- fled to escape liability to military service at home, general in the rebel service, died at Charlottes- this rule will be strictly applied. In pursuance, ville, Va., from a wound received in the fight therefore, to orders to this effect from Majorat Bristoe Station, Va. General Posey was General W. T. Sherman, commanding departformerly colonel of the Forty-eighth Mississippi ment and army of the Tennessee, all officers regiment, belonging to General Featherstone's commanding districts, divisions, and detached brigade, and when the latter was transferred brigades of this corps, will immediately proceed from the army of Virginia to the West, General to impress into the service of the United States Posey was commissioned to succeed him.-THE such able-bodied persons liable to military duty firing on Fort Sumter continued steadily. From as may be required to fill up the existing regi"Thursday morning last until yesterday (Sat-ments and batteries to their maximum. Those urday) at sundown, one thousand five hundred persons so levied upon, if they enlist for three and twenty-three mortar shells and rifled shots years or the war, will be entitled to the full benwere fired at the fort. The Union fire has ceased efits provided by the acts of Congress. If not, to be of any injury to that defence."-Richmond they will receive clothing and rations, and be Enquirer. borne at the foot of each company roll with remarks stating their time of service and the advances made by the Government in clothing; a certificate of which will be given them when discharged from such forced service, the question of pay or other compensation to be settled by proper authorities hereafter. They will be discharged when no further military necessity appears for their enforced service.

-MAJOR-GENERAL S. A. HURLBUT, from his headquarters, Sixteenth army corps, at Memphis, Tenn., issued the following general order:

I. The people in the District of West-Tennessee and the northern counties of Mississippi having shown no disposition, and made no attempt to protect themselves from marauders and guerrilla bands, but having submitted themselves, without organized resistance, to the domination of these petty tyrants, and combined, in many instances, with the known enemies of the United States to procure from corrupt traders in the city of Memphis and elsewhere, supplies for the use of the public enemy, have proved themselves unworthy of the indulgence shown them by the Government.

It is therefore ordered, that the lines of pickets around the several military posts of this com

IV. The senior surgeons and inspectors present will constitute a Board of Inspection on the physical capacity of recruits.-General Orders No. 157.

-LAST evening a party of rebel cavalry crossed the Rapidan in front of Kilpatrick's line, at Morton's Ford, Va., attacked the pickets, capturing some six or eight of them, and retreated across the river again.

This morning the affair was reported to Gen

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-GENERAL AVERILL arrived at New-Creek,

eral Custer, who was temporarily in command of the division, when he immediately ordered a Va. At or near Covington he encountered and regiment of cavalry and Pennington's battery dispersed a portion of Imboden's command on of three-inch rifled guns down to the rear, their way to reenforce Echols, and captured and drove them back from the ford, notwith-twenty-five prisoners in the skirmish. standing they had brass twelve-pounders. This was done in the midst of a heavy rain-storm. No serious casualties were reported to MajorGeneral Pleasanton.

-THE cavalry belonging to the Union forces under the command of Brigadier-General J. C. Sullivan, sent out from Harper's Ferry, Va., returned this day, having been up the Valley to November 16.-General Burnside retreating on near New-Market, fighting Gilmore's and White's the advance of Longstreet, evacuated Lenoir, commands at Mount Jackson, bringing in twenTenn., but fought a battle at Campbell's Station. ty-seven prisoners, two commissioned officers, The fight lasted for some hours. The Federal ninety head of cattle, three four-horse teams, betroops retreated to the protection of their bat- sides thirty tents and all the horses and equipage teries, which opened upon the rebels with effect, of the prisoners; the party was under the comand checked their advance. They fell back to mand of Colonel Bayard, of the Thirty-first Pennthe river; a second battle was fought in the after-sylvania cavalry. noon, which continued until nightfall, Burnside remaining in possession of the ground. Loss of the rebels estimated at one thousand killed and wounded. Lieutenant-Colonel Smith, Twentieth Michigan, was killed.-Doc. 19.

November 17.-Nearly a hundred prisoners captured by General Averill in his engagement with the rebels in Pocahontas County, Va., arrived at Wheeling this morning, and were committed to the Athenæum. There was scarcely a whole suit of clothes in the party, and many of them were without 'shoes. Judging from the fact that a fall of snow was lately announced in the vicinity of where the fight took place, these shoeless rebels must have suffered terribly from the cold.

He destroyed a number of tents and a quantity of salt. The men helped themselves to a wagon-load of tobacco, weighing about five hundred pounds.

The Union loss was two men killed, three wounded and three missing.—General Sullivan's Despatch.

-CORPUS CHRISTI and Aranzas Pass, Texas, were captured by the National forces under the command of Major-General Banks. Yesterday afternoon at about three o'clock, the gunboat Monongahela, with a fleet of nine vessels, transports, etc., arrived at the bar and commenced landing troops through the surf on the south point of Mustang Island. This morning at sunrise, the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Maine regi-THE schooner Joseph L. Gerity, on a voy-ments, Thirty-fourth Iowa, Eighth Indiana, and age from Matamoras to New-York, with a cargo company F, First Missouri artillery, with a part of cotton and six passengers, was seized by the of the Twentieth Iowa volunteers, were ashore latter, who overcame the captain and crew; and and in column en route up the beach toward after keeping them in confinement eight days, set Aranzas Pass. About eleven o'clock the Mononthem adrift at sea in a small boat, in which they gahela opened her two hundred-pound Parrott eventually landed on the coast of Sisal. After on the enemy's battery, which was planted bethe crew and captain were put in the boat the hind the sand-hills so as to completely cover the captors hoisted the rebel flag and fired a salute channel and southern point of St. Joseph's with pistols, declaring that they would carry Island. In the mean time the Thirteenth and vessel and cargo into Honduras and sell them. Fourteenth Maine, the two advance regiments, succeeded in getting in the rear of the works within two miles, without being discovered. The armed transport McClellan, Captain Gray, drawing less water than the Monongahela, worked up close on to the battery, soon making it untenable. They abandoned the battery, sought shelter from the sand-hills, until their flag of truce was discovered, when they were permitted to surrender without terms. Their battery con

November 18.-The firing on Fort Sumter from the National batteries continued. A rebel mortar battery on Sullivan's Island shelled Gregg and the Cummings Point defences all day.GENERAL LONGSTREET made an attack upon the Union outposts, on the Kingston road, near Knoxville, Tenn., and compelled General Sanders, in command of the forces there, to fall back to the town.-Doc. 19.

sisted of three twenty-four-pounders and one ualties were one man wounded and five horses eight-inch sea-howitzer. The force of the garri-shot.-LARGE and spirited meetings were held in son consisted of one company of regular artil- all the wards in Boston, Mass., last night, to enlery and two companies of drafted Texan militia, in all, about one hundred and fifty men.

courage volunteering. Committees were appointed, and the work was pursued with energy. A similar movement was made in cities and towns throughout the State.-AT GETTYSBURGH, Pa., the national cemetery, for the burial of the Union soldiers who fell in the battles fought at that

—A COMBINED expedition, consisting of the gunboat Morse, commanded by Captain Charles A. Babcock, and four hundred and fifty men from the One Hundred and Forty-eighth regiment of

November 19.-General Hampton and General Thomas L. Rosser returned to Fredericksburgh, Va., from a most successful expedition into Culpeper County. On Tuesday night last they crossed the Rapidan with detachments from Rosser's, Gor-place in July, 1863, was consecrated. don's, and Young's brigades, all under the immediate command of General Rosser, for the purpose of ascertaining the position of the enemy on the other side. After marching all night over a desperate road, they succeeded, about daylight on Wed-New-York volunteers, under the command of Lieunesday morning, in locating the pickets of the enemy. That being accomplished, General Rosser immediately ordered a charge, which was executed by his brigade in the most gallant style, driving the advance back upon the main body, which was encamped a short distance in the rear. Here the enemy had formed a line of defence; but, in defiance of a heavy fire poured into his command, General Rosser pressed forward, and soon drove the entire force (the Eighteenth Pennsylvania cavalry) through their encampment, and pursued them some miles beyond, in the direc-hours previously. Passing the night there, early tion of Stevensburgh.

tenant-Colonel George M. Guion, left Yorktown, Va., on Monday, November sixteenth, in search of a party of the rebel "Marine Brigade," reported to be on their way from Richmond to Mob Jack Bay, to commit depredations on the North

ern commerce.

The Morse landed the regiment the same evening at the head-waters of East River, which at once marched across the county to Matthews Court-House, where information was obtained that the "Marines" had left the place but a few

River. No traces of the rebels being discovered, the regiment turned about and scoured the country down to the mouth of the Piankatank, encamping that night at Cricket Hill.

the next morning the march was continued northThe result of this gallant exploit was the cap-ward as far as Shuffletown, on the Piankatank ture of sixty prisoners, among them an adjutant and one lieutenant, two flags, one hundred horses and mules, a number of tents, all the wagons, baggage, etc., of the encampment. The enemy fled through the woods in every direction, many of them without having completed their toilet for the day. Having located the enemy, (the original object of the expedition,) and obtained other valuable information, the command was withdrawn, by the way of Germanna Ford, to the other side of the river, where the prisoners and other captures had been previously forwarded.Richmond Enquirer.

The next morning, the eighteenth, crossing in small boats to Gwynne's Island, the men were deployed across it, and the cover beaten as they advanced. About noon, near the lower end of the island, their labor was rewarded by the discovery of the entire party for which they were in search, consisting of an acting master in the rebel navy, named Webb, and fifteen men. The marines were hidden in the reeds and bushes of swamp, and offered little resistance. Each man was armed with a carbine, cutlass, and pistol of English manufacture. They had with them a twelvepounder breech-loading brass howitzer, which, however, they had previously concealed in the woods. A sloop, with which they intended to commit depredations on passing vessels, was discovered up a creek, and burned.

-A DETACHMENT, composed of companies G, H, I, and K, of the Fifty-eighth regiment of Illinois infantry, with a portion of the Second Illinois cavalry, under the command of Captain Franklin B. Moore, pursued Faulkner's rebel partisans to a point on Obion River, four miles from Union City, Tennessee, where, in attempting to cross the river, the rebels were fired on, and eleven of their number killed. The Nationals captured They were expecting to capture a large vessel, fifty-three prisoners, a wagon-load of small-arms, and eventually to attack one of the mail-boats thirty-three horses, and four mules. Their cas-plying between Fortress Monroe and Baltimore,

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