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Confederate account of the battle of Lukas.
A correspondent of the Jackson Mississippian, gives the following account of the fight near Lukas (a Northern story of which we publish in another part of this paper:)
Friday morning, Col. Ord sent in a flag demanding the unconditional surrender of General Price's army, stating that the army of Gen. Lee had been destroyed in Virginia; Longstreet and Hill, with their entire divisions captured; that the war was now virtually closed and as he wished to prevent the useless shedding of blood, he demanded an unconditional surrender.
That he (Gen. Price) was completely surrounded by an overwhelming, force, and could not escape.
General Price replied that whenever the independence of the Southern Confederacy was acknowledged, her rights respected and the Vandal hordes of the North were driven from her soil; that then, and then only, would he and his army be willing and ready to lay down their arms.
General Price, in obedience to o