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they had not less than twenty wounded. In Hampton's night attack upon them, near Atlee's, he killed four or five and wounded as many more. In the several engagements which occurred they must have lost, at a low estimate, twenty five in killed and seventy wounded. The loss in prisoners. Their loss in prisoners will reach two hundred and fifty. Up to 7 o'clock yesterday evening one hundred and seventy had been booked at the Libby, and these did not include the seventy captured by Col. Johnston in the neighborhood of Tunstall's. Their loss in horses and Equipments. What their nett loss in horses will amount to cannot, of course, be estimated, as the number they stole in their line of march will go far to make up the number captured from them. They did not loss less than five hundred in killed and captured. Besides the horses they lost a Napoleon gun, many saddles, carbines, sabres, pistols, blankets, &c. Altogether the expedition was rather an expensive one to Kilpat
meet another. Yankee column from the vicinity of Huntsville, in North Alabama. If these movements could all he successful, he would be enabled to concentrate an army in Central Alabama whose numerical strength would reach from seventy to eighty thousand men. The possession of Montgomery with such an army would made the enemy, as they suppose, masters of Selon and Mobile, and indeed, of nearly the entire State, while at the same time the same force could operate in the rear of Gen. Johnston's army at Dalton, thus placing that veteran army between two fires and increase the chances of bagging it entirely. We believe that the much talked of spring campaign contemplates some such programme as foreshadowed above, and it behooves our military authorities to be vigilant; for it must be confessed that the capture of either Selma or montgomery would he a blow which would seriously cripple us. When Sherman notified the Confederate authorities that he was preparing an expe