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dsomely repulsed. We have no further details of the fight, but the results reported to us by an officer who participated in the engagement show that the Federals, lost, as is estimated, about three thousand five hundred killed and wounded; our own loss being about five hundred. "Colonel Alfred Rhett, in command of the brigade, is reported missing. "Killed in First infantry regulars: Lieutenant-Colonel DeTreville, Lieutenant Glover and Captain Quattlebaum. Wounded: Captain Press. Smith, badly; Captain Burnett, thigh; Captain Calhoun; Captain P. Bacott, knee; Lieutenant Horlback, left eye; Lieutenant North. Wounded and captured: Lieutenant Ravenel McBeth. "First artillery--Killed: Captain Lesene, son of Henry Lesesne; Lieutenants LaBorde and Stewart. Wounded; Major Blanding, Captain Rhett, Lieutenant Fickling, Lieutenant J. Middleton, Lieutenant de Lorns, Lieutenant Robertson. Missing: Lieutenant Edward Middleton, Lieutenant Frost." A letter from Major W. S. D
gnation of the Hon. Robert H. Whilfield, late the representative from the district composed of the counties of Norfolk, Princess Anne, Nansemond, Isle of Wight, Southampton, Sussex, Surry and Greensville, and the city of Norfolk: Therefore I, William Smith, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, do hereby proclaim and make know that elections will be help in the said counties and city on Monday, the 10th day of April next, to supply the said vacancy; and the sheriffs of the said counties and, each in his respective county or city, and officers commanding military encampments and posts are authorized to have such elections held on the sard 10th day of April next for a representative to fill the vacancy aforesaid Given under my hand as Governor, and under the scale of the Commonwealth, at Richmond, this 20th day of March, A. P. 1865 and in the eighty-ninth year of the Commonwealth. William Smith. By the Governor: Goeger W. Muxford, Secretary of the Commonweath mh 21--6t
e States, occasioned by the resignation of the Hon. William C. Rives, late the representative from the District composed of the counties of Albemarle, Campbell, Amherst, Nelson, Fluvanna and Buckingham, and the city of Lynchburg: Therefore I, William Smith, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, de hereby proclaim and make known that elections will be held in the said counties and city on Monday, the 10th day of April next, to supply the said vacancy; and the she sheriffs of the said countieeach in his respective county of city, and officers commanding military encampments and posts are authorized to have such elections held on the mid 10th day of April next for a representative to fill the vacancy aforesaid. Given under my hand as Governor, and under the seal of the Commonwealth at Richmond, this 20th day of March, A. D. 1865, and in the eighty-ninth year of the Commonwealth. William Smith. By the Governor: George W. Munfound Secretary of the Commonwealth. mh 21--6t*