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urgeon Clark, of Col. Wharton's Regiment, in Gen. Floyd's Brigade, and Adjutant Otey, of the same rehe city yesterday evening from the camp of Generals Floyd and Wise, at the foot of Sewell Mountain, lars of the engement at Carnifax Ferry: Gen. Floyd had warning of the approach of Rosencranz, az's report to sixteen! Out of five Regiments Gen. Floyd had seventeen hundred available men; Rosencr thousand of these he ordered to the attack of Floyd's line at about 3 o'clock on Tuesday, the 10thing some tents, cartridges, etc. A part of General Floyd's private baggage, and also that of some oed his figures to 20 killed and 100 wounded. Gen. Floyd took six of the enemy prisoners. By their appeared on the river and fired a few shots. Gen. Floyd formed a junction with General Wise, and thediers of the Southwest are good marksmen. Floyd's defence was most gallant and his crossing ofoint. We hope that General Lee's message to Gen. Floyd indicates the intention of that officer to c[5 more...]
ation to military matiers in the Western part of the State and elsewhere.--All the reports which we have from the neighborhood of Kanawha, go to prove that severe fighting has taken place in the vicinity of Ganley river, between the forces of General Floyd and Rosencranz, and from what can be learned of Wise, it is more than likely that his forces, too, haye been engaged. The tenor of what news we learn here, (which romes to us by a different route from which you get your reports.) go to confirm the main points as reported via Lewisburg, viz; that the Federals were badly whipped, with a loss of about 400 killed and over 1,000 wounded, while our loss was very slight--one killed and a few wounded; but that Floyd was compelled to fall back from his entronched position and recross Ganley river, for fear of being cut off from his provisions by the advance of Cox's forces. The great disparity in casualties appears strange, but it would be no less stranger if the accounts we have, which r