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day by a dispatch from General Lee, advising us of our danger, and suggesting the step we had taken. Our withdrawal was as brilliant a success as our defence. We lost in this movement not a man, a gun, or a wagon, and would not have lost a single article of value had not the removal of our large number of sick required the use of an unusual portion of our means of transportation. The road was terrible, and wide enough only for the passage of a single wagon, while the rapid and rugged Gauley had to be crossed on two flat-boats and a temporary foot-bridge, just completed on the morning of the fight. The feat was accomplished in less than five hours, and in the darkness of the night. Our subsequent movements have been entirely governed by those of the enemy. The night after the fight we encamped at Dogwood Gap, on the main turnpike, midway between the Saturday and Sunday roads, and about ten miles from Camp Gauley. On Thursday, intelligence reached us that the enemy was cr