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Battle of Olustee, Florida.
A correspondent of the Lake City Columbian, gives the following interesting account of the fight at Olustee, in Florida:
The great battle of East Florida has been fought and another glorious victory has been won by our gallant soldiery.
At an early hour this forenoon couriers arrived at distant headquarters with the intelligence that the enemy, seven thousand strong, under command of Major-Gen. Gillmore, had passed the village of Sanderson, en route for the interior of this State.
No sooner was this intelligence communicated, than a cavalry force composed of detachments of the 4th Ga., Col. Clinch; 2d Fla., cavalry, Lt.--Col. A. H. Mc nick, and Scott's Battalion, Major G. W. Scott, all under the command of Col. Caraway Smith, 2d Florida cavalry, proceeded forward with the view of ascertaining the strength and position of the enemy.
The command of Col. Smith proceeded to a point near the Florida Central railroad, about eighteen miles east