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aturday. Two guns lost by Johnson's division were so disabled by shot, and the killing of the horses, that it was impossible to move them. Davis's division did not lose a gun or wagon during the conflict. To my staff--Lieutenant-Colonel G. P. Thurston, A. A. G. and Chief of Staff; Major Caleb Bates, A. D. C.; Captain B. D. Williams, A. D. C.; Captain F. J. Jones, A. D. C.; Captain J. M. Fisher, volunteer A. D. C.; Lieutenant-Colonel H. A. Fisher, Assistant Inspector-General; Lieutenant-Colonel J. F. Boyd, Quartermaster; Lieutenant-Colonel G. W. Burton, Commissary of Subsistence; Major G. A. Hensel, Chief of Artillery; Captain A. C. McClurg, A. A. A. G. and Ordnance Officer; Surgeon J. Perkins, Medical Director; Captain A. T. Snodgrass, Provost-Marshal; Captain J. C. McElpatrick, Topographical Engineer; Lieutenant B. R. Wood, Signal Officer--my thanks are due for their devotion to duty, gallantry in action, and intelligence on the field. For particular instances of individual b
unty with his command. Sunday, at ten o'clock P. M., Captains Boyd, of C, and Bailey, of K, with one hundred men of the Fially wounded — the Rebel had skedaddled! At Piedmont Captain Boyd received information, through the agency of his valuablThe next question under discussion was how to find him. Captain Boyd in this succeeded admirably. He learned that Moseby's Hathaway, (he commanded the rebel militia,) accompanied Captain Boyd into headquarters as a prisoner. Dressed in citizen's bile fratrum and birds of a feather. Near this place Captain Boyd also captured a middle-aged man, who would now be in th business. It was a labor of love. Alas! that now, in Captain Boyd's grasp, his delightful occupation's gone. Unfortunate, with fourteen prisoners and sixteen captured horses. Captain Boyd, commanding the detachment, is entitled to all credit droken up his favorite rendezvous. Not many weeks ago Captain Boyd marched to Fairfax Court-House with one hundred men. Mo
n to the public without detriment. No considerable body of the enemy are yet reported to be on the south side of the river. A small body of cavalry advanced from the direction of Williamsport to-day, and captured three of our wagons and as many men, who had been foraging in the vicinity of the mountain, about seven miles from Martinsburgh. The remainder of the party escaped. General Pettigrew, of North-Carolina, died of his wound at half-past 6 yesterday morning, at the residence of Mr. Boyd, Bunker Hill, from the effect of his wound received in repelling a cavalry charge into his brigade just before recrossing the Potomac, Wednesday last. His confinement was soothed by every attention his condition required, and his faithful body-servant attended him to the last. His noble features, calm and placid in death, and his body arrayed in full uniform, with his limbs composed, he appeared, instead of death, more like one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him,. and lies down