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f 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 crossing the Gauley at Hughes's Ferry, with a view of cutting us off by the Wilderness road, at Meadow Bluff, sixteen miles this side of Lewisburg. We at once moved back to this point, so as to place ourselves in striking distance of the enemy, should be appear in that quarter, and at the same time to hold the strongest and most defensible position this side of Gauley Bridge, on the line of Cox's advance. If we are attacked here with as many as ten thousand men, I think we can defeat them, and we are anxiously anticipating a fight in a few days. The writer urges the great importance of th