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coming in constantly.
I know already of ten officers killed and prisoners.
Their retreat is complete.
I occupied Beverly by a rapid march.
Garnett abandoned his camp early in the morning, leaving much of his equipage.
He came within a few miles of Beverly, but our rapid march turned him back in great confusion, and he is now retreating on the road to St. George.
I have ordered Gen. Morris to follow him up closely.
I have telegraphed for the two Pennsylvania regiments at Cumberland to join Gen. Hill at Rowlesburg.
The General is concentrating all his troops at Rowlesburg, and he will cut off Garnett's retreat near West Union, or, if possible, at St. George.
I may say that we have driven out some ten thousand troops, strongly intrenched, with the loss of 11 killed and 35 wounded. The provision returns here show Garnett's force to have been ten thousand men. They were Eastern Virginians, Tennesseans, Georgians, and, I think, Carolinians.
To-morrow I can give full details, as to prisoners, &c.
I trust that Gen. Cox has, by this time, driven Wise out of the Kanawha Valley.
In that case, I shall have accomplished the object of liberating Western Virginia.
I hope the General-in-Chief will approve of my operations.
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