d of the line, where Major.
Gen. Early commanded, there was some hard fighting yesterday morning.
In the afternoon Marye's Heights were carried by the enemy, and several hundred of our men, belonging to a Mississippi regiment, captured.
Five or sines of their entrenchments they captured three batteries, together with about 5,000 prisoners.
The struggle on Marye's Heights is also represented as being desperate.
On Sunday, at Marye's Heights, the enemy, by a flank movement, succeeded inMarye's Heights, the enemy, by a flank movement, succeeded in capturing six guns belonging to the 1st, 2d, 3d, and 4th companies of the Louisiana Washington Artillery.
The 5th Louisiana regiment were nearly all taken prisoners, together with many men belonging to the 6th Louisiana.
On Monday our army flanked the enemy and retook Marye's Heights.
Hays's Louisiana brigade greatly distinguished itself, taking fourteen pieces of the enemy's artillery.
We lost in all fourteen pieces of artillery and captured, fifty-three.
We also captured nearly
olumns then leaving Chancellorsville.
They, however, gave way without risking another general engagement, and on this end of the line the heavy fighting of the day was ended.
Nothing, beyond the events here described, has since transpired, with the exception of occasional artillery duelling.
Whilst these operations were in progress on the upper line, Gen. Early's division was hotly engaged in front of Fredericksburg.
During the afternoon of Sunday the enemy succeeded in carrying Marye's Heights, where they captured some 200 of our men belonging to a Mississippi regiment, and several pieces of the Washington Artillery.
The next morning Gen. E. was reinforced by the division of Gen. McLaws and part of the division of Gen. Anderson, when the heights were assailed and car-
ried, and our artillery recaptures.
Soon after our troops regained possession of the town which at last accounts was held by Gen. Law ton's brigade.
The fighting on the end of the line of Monday was ver
hancellorsville, and assisted in driving him from the position assumed on the old turnpike on Sunday.
Capture of Marye's Heights.
After this, these divisions were sent to aid Gen. Early, whose division was contending with the enemy, under Gen. Sedgwick, in the immediate front of Fredericksburg; they, as stated, having carried Marye's Heights on Sunday afternoon. On Monday morning these divisions took position on the right of the plank road, from which they moved on in the direction of ordon, assisted by Barksdale's Mississippians.
It is stated that the loss of the enemy on Sunday in their attack on Marye's Heights was very heavy, and nearly equalled the slaughter which attended their advance on the 13th of December.
The figere two or three men were wounded, but no lives lost.
The second section, Lt. J. T. Brown commanding, was placed on Marye's Heights, and was captured on Sunday, along with Serg'ts Duffee and Cogbill, and privates D. A Brown, je, Curlby, McGid, and
n our extreme right, their accuracy, precision, and effect.
On Lee's and Howison's hills, two Georgia batteries, of Cabell's artillery battalion, Capt. Frazier's and Capt. Carleton's, deserve especial mention, and did fearful work among the foe. Handled with surpassing skill and unrivalled courage, checking and mowing down Sedgwick's men, after firing all except the last round of ammunition, bringing off everything in safety, even the dead bodies of their comrades, and in retreat after Marye's Heights were taken, giving the enemy a parthian shot, they have won a proud name for distinguished service on that memorable day.
One incident deserves a record for imitation.
A private in Carleton's battery (Sayre by name, I think,) seeing an enemy's shell with the fuse burning fall near his gun, pushed it off, to explode at the bottom of the redoubt, and thus doubtless saved the lives of several.
Manly's North Carolina, and McCarthy's Richmond Howitzers, also did noble service in the v
as for the third time effected on Friday evening, our forces have advanced no further than the open plain behind the rifle-pits from which the enemy was driven, or rather in which the greater part of his sharp shooters, on whom he depended to held the ford, were captured.
The brigade of General Neil crossed over yesterday at ten o'clock and took a position on the left.
In the evening Gen. Shaler, who has innately been promoted for conspicuous gallantry displayed at Fredericks burg and Marye's Heights five weeks ago to day, joined us with his brigade.
Two lines of battle — the first consisting of Gen. Hewe's forces and the second comprising Shalar's troops — were formed plainly in right of the rebel and under the of back artillery yet very quiet on both.
sides. The Sixth Vermont Volunteers, of the brigade commanded by Colonel Grant, were thrown forward as skirmisher, and suffered the only casualties inflicted by the enemy yesterday.
The movement thus far has been conducted
The Confederate Reading Room opens this morning with a new and beautiful lot of Yankee Pictorials, just received from the North, containing illustrations of the recent events of the war — amongst others, the battles about Fredericksburg, Hooker's headquarters; battle of Chancellorship; capture of Marye's Heights; Stoneman's great Cavalry raid, with portrait of Stoneman; somes of the siege of Vicksburg and Port Hudson; "The Phunny Phellow," with over 500 comic illustrations Also, late New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington papers; with several copies of late English (London) papers.
Admission (for all day) 20 cents.
Bethel, Manassas, Leesburg, in the first year of the war — the plains of Williamsburg, the bloody panorama of battle-fields around the beleaguered capital, the blaze of successive victories with which Jackson lighted up the Valley of the Shenandoah from Harper's Ferry to Port Republic, Cedar Mountain, Manassas again, the closing and overwhelming discomfiture at Fredericksburg in the second year of the war, and the grand rout, after four days continuous conflict, of Chancellorsville and Marye's Heights, in the present year, followed by the enemy's third expulsion from the Valley — let those memorable fields, with their solemn and truthful voices, tell.
During this period, too, the army of Northern Virginia, under its illustrious leader, made two bold and successful incursions in to the enemy's territory; levied contributions upon it; gave battle to his concentrated legions on his own soil, crippling and inflicting heavy losses upon him; and then returned at leisure to resume its
this move, occupied it.
The "dawn's early light" of Sunday, May 3d, found Hooker half whipped and his army considerably demoralized at Chancellorsville.
Whilst at Fredericksburg, Early was lying int he trenches confronting Sedgwick's corps, and awaiting his onward move.
Soon after day the enemy opened with their artillery from their positions both at Fredericksburg and at the Bernard House.
This they kept up until about nine o'clock, when, having massed their troops in front of Marye's Heights, they buried their columns against the stone-wall — the first time unsuccessfully; for Barksdale, the gallant Mississippian, with his band of heroes, met the shock of battle and nobly buried it back.
The enemy pause and resort to artifice.
A flag of truce is exhibited, and in an evil moment the gallant Colonel (Griffin, of the 18th Miss,) received it.--They enemy thus discover that instead of holding the Stonewall with a line of battle, Barksdale's men are so stretched out that they a
ich position he filled with zeal and efficiency for upwards of twelve months. Feeling anxious for a more active life in the field, he resigned the office of provost-marshal and accepted the colonelcy of a North Carolina regiment, organized from citizens in the neighborhood of Salisbury, the scene of his first experience in the Confederate service.
At the head of this regiment, Colonel Godwin fought gallantly through the battles of 1863 around Fredericksburg, including Chancellorsville, Marye's Heights, &c., and subsequently commanded Hay's Louisiana brigade at the battle of Rappahannock bridge, in September of last year, where he was captured after twice having his horses shot from under him.--About two months since he was released from a Yankee prison on account of the shattered condition of his health, superinduced by close confinement as a prisoner; but soon after returning home he regained his health, was declared exchanged, and immediately assumed command of his regiment in Gene
