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a brief interval, was renewed with a still more disastrous repulse. He then retired at night, leaving about seven hundred killed and wounded in our hands. Our loss was fifteen killed and seventy wounded. The following official dispatch from General Echols was received at General Kemper's office yesterday: "Salville, October 3, 1864. "To Major-General Kemper:" "We whipped the enemy badly here yesterday, and he has retired in confusion, leaving his dead and wounded in our hands — amgood many officers. There were two or three regiments of negro troops, which were badly cut up. The reserves and detailed men acted splendidly. The enemy's force was about six thousand, as near as we could estimate. We are in hot pursuit. John Echols, Brigadier-General." The following is the dispatch of General Lee to the War Department: "Headquarters Army Northern Virginia," October 4, 1864. "Hon. Secretary of War: "General Breckinridge reports that the enemy attack