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ting of Gen. Wilder's "Lightning Brigade," supported by a heavy column of infantry, drove in our pickets, capturing two of our signal stations beyond Hoover's Gap, and at 2 P. M. was met by Gen Bate's brigade, when a severe engagement took place, which continued until dark. Seven regiments of the enemy were driven back with considerable slaughter — our artillery doing good execution. Our loss was also severe — a Georgia regiment, of Bate's brigade, losing forty men killed and wounded. Capt Claybrook, of 20th Tennessee, was mortally wounded. At Liberty Gap, which is six miles Northwest of Bell Backle, the latter place being about five miles North of Wartrace, our pickets were also driven in by the enemy, when their advance was checked by the gallant brigade of Brig-Gen. St. John Liddell, of Major-General Cleburn's division, which soon became hotly engaged, Capt. Scott's battery of artillery keeping up a destructive fire. The enemy attempted to flank us on the right, with a vie