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Details of Tuesday's battle near Williamsport.
Several persons present at the recent engagements near Martinsburg concur, substantially, in the following accounts:
On Tuesday last the Yankee forces, numbering near 10,000, while approaching Martinsburg, were met by Col. Jackson's advance, consisting of a portion of Col. Harper's Regiment from Augusta county, about 700 strong, and a squadron of cavalry under Col. Steward.
The Federal forces, excepting Sherman's boasted battery, occupied a forest.--The Confederate troops advanced, under the protection of a rail fence, to within three hundred yards of the enemy.--Col. Stuart, with Capt. Patrick's company of Cavalry, from Augusta, opened the engagement by capturing the van of the enemy, consisting of an entire company of Pennsylvanians; a sharp firing was kept up for an hour and a half between the main bodies, with a loss to the enemy estimated at the minimum of 67 killed, 85 wounded, and 53 prisoners; when the firing ceased, an