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e, of them came crowding around the table, clamoring for milk. The farmer and his family, partly through fear, rose up and commenced dealing out to them some milk. But in a shorter time than it has taken me to tell of it, they pounced upon the food like harpies, and the table was cleared of everything except what I had insisted on retaining on my own plate. They informed me that they were part of the escort to the signal corps, and had been driven down by the Confederates from Thoroughfare Mountain, their baggage wagon captured, and several of their number taken prisoners. Proceeding a little further, I descried in the distance a baggage train moving toward Culpeper Court-House. I supposed it to be that of General Cluseret. If so, I fear it has been captured. A considerable force of the enemy were not far from it at the time. As I approached my destination the cannonading had commenced. A line of dust above the woods indicated the road upon which our troops were a