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The fight near Lynchburg.
The Lynchburg papers of Tuesday furnish extended accounts of the recent fighting near that city, and the retreat of Hunter.
They neared the city on Monday, the 13th, and from that day till the following Friday were making slow progress, being always engaged in front by Gen. McCausland, with his cavalry.
On Friday they had their last wrestle with him at the old Quaker Church, about three miles from the city, and captured a gun from him.
The fight of Saturday.
At 11 o'clock precisely a furious cannonading set in, and, with some brief intervals of silence, was continued until late in the afternoon.
Occasionally the roll of musketry was heard as an accompaniment to the deeper toned thunders of artillery.
The line of battle extended from about half a mile above the toll gate (two and a half miles from Lynchburg,) on the Lynchburg and Salem turn pike, moving in a direction a little west of north, including portions of the land of Dr. Owen, Charl