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s is acknowledged to be not over half that. We had 20,000 troops engaged and the rebels about 10,000, according to their wounded. We took 3,000 prisoners, and about 3,000 at the battle of the bridge. All possibility of escape is cut off. Every man, woman, and child must fall into our hands. At 2 o'clock yesterday the battle began in earnest. Gen. Steele drove the enemy from several forts, and took one complete line of fortifications, fronted by rifle pits. It is morning. General McClernand, on the left, is not progressing so fast, but is doing well. We lost about 1,500 killed and wounded yesterday. A correspondent says: "In the late battle at Thompson's Hill we lost 528. The enemy's loss will reach 2,500, including 400 captured and paroled in the hospital at Port Gibson. Nearly 600 prisoners have already been sent North." The cavalry of the rebel Col. Breckinridge were pounced upon in their camp within 12 miles of McMinnville, near Murfreesboro', a few days