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y captured two trains at Big Shanty on the 27th. Dispatches from Nashville say that both roads going south from there (forming Sherman's line of communication) are cut, and there is no longer telegraphic communication with Sherman. From General Early. An official dispatch, received at the War Department from General Early, reports the enemy north of North river, his cavalry occupying the north bank of that stream, his infantry being near Harrisonburg. After slight skirmishing the eneGeneral Early, reports the enemy north of North river, his cavalry occupying the north bank of that stream, his infantry being near Harrisonburg. After slight skirmishing the enemy's cavalry fell back from Mount Crawford. Mount Crawford is in Rockingham county just north of North river. It is about sixteen miles the other side of Staunton and eight miles this side of Harrisonburg. The raid in Northern Virginia. The raiding party mentioned yesterday as the day before at Russell's Hill, fifteen miles from Gordonsville, has returned without attempting a raid. On the Central road, official dispatches at the War Department report a small force of the enemy's c
and must be received as a part of his campaign. In the table above, no mention is made of Hunter's losses in his advance to Lynchburg. They could not have been less than fifteen thousand. Butler's movements in Chesterfield, too, are ignored entirely. In the fight at Drewry's Bluff, on the 16th May, they were all of seven thousand five hundred, to say nothing of his heavy losses previously at Port Walthall junction and Swift creek. The bloody battle of Monocracy, in Maryland, between General Early and Lew. Wallace, is also omitted. Also, the fights around the Washington defences. The writer fails to refer to the fight at the Crater, in which the enemy conceded a loss of over 5,000. No mention is made of the bloody fights on the Weldon railroad, which occurred on the 18th and 20th of August, near the Davis house, where we took over three thousand prisoners alone, and the enemy admitted a heavy loss in killed and wounded. The table does not include either the fight of the 25th A