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unday. His staff officers--Major Goggin, Major E. L. Costin, Capt Lamar, and Capt. E. Taliaferro--discharged their duties nobly, and escaped harm in the storm of bullets which fell so thick and fast. I have not space or time except to give you now a few hurried sentences, which may help to give you some better idea of the battles. The enemy's loss must be 25,000. At least 40,000 small arms and 26 cannon we have taken. One good result is the proof afforded of our improved artillery.--Major Latimer, with two batteries, drove the men from a Yankee battery opposite the Bernard House and made them abandon their guns. Major Braxton, at Chancellorsville, twice compelled the Yankees to leave their guns. McClellan's boast of superior artillery is exploded. I regret to state that John Hall, of this place, of Braxton's battery, was killed. James Forbes was also killed. T. and D. Cunningham were also slightly wounded. I hear of no other casualties among our townsmen. I am promised