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hat ensued, lost his life. The Department forces and the local troops, under the command of Colonel Curtis Lee, displayed, on this occasion, a most commendable alertness and gallantry. In the meantime, Siegel had been removed in the Valley, and Hunter appointed to succeed him. Finding the Valley open, this officer advanced in the direction of Staunton, it being his object to capture Lynchburg, and thus perform a part in the grand operations by which Grant hoped to isolate Richmond. Encounter roops attacked them. They could not get out, and an awful slaughter ensued. We have not room to detail the numerous actions around Petersburg in all of which, with the exception of one, we were victorious. Nor can we enter into the details of Hunter's march to Lynchburg, or his retreat from that place, pursued by Early; nor of the march of the latter up the Valley, through Maryland, to within one mile of Washington; nor of his subsequent return to the Valley, and defeats at Winchester and Ne