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ether numbering some twelve hundred, including a large number of citizens who had joined them. Here was their camp, which our troops, after routing its occupants, destroyed, together with a mill filled with grain, and other rebel property. Our forces chased the enemy ten miles in the direction of Fredericksburg, killing and wounding a good many, and taking over thirty prisoners. While our cavalry were engaged in the above operations the infantry regiments made a thorough scouring of Mathews and Middlesex counties. The guerillas abounding in these counties, such as did not make their escape in flight were pretty thoroughly cleaned out and a number taken prisoners.--Several rebel storehouses and their contents were buried. A guerilla leader was among the killed. He was riding in a buggy drawn by a fast horse. It took a chase of several miles before he could be brought to a halt, and only then after being hit by a bullet from the revolver of one of his pursuers. He was