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The victory in the Northwest.
We conversed yesterday with soldiers who were engaged in the battle of Greenbrier river on the 3d instant.
They represent that the rent of the enemy was complete, and the back of cavalry only prevented his entire destruction.
Portions of the 28d and 44th Virginia, and the 1st and 12th Georgia regiments, participated in the fight, but most of the work was done by artillery.
On one occasion, a Yankee Colonel was observed waving his sword and leading his men to a charge across the river, but a volley from two amended companies, one of which was the Richmond Sharp-Shooters, occasioned on sudden change in the programme, and a retreat was the consequence.
The loss of the Federals could not be ascertained with his approach to accuracy, since they were amply provided with wagons and ambulances and carried away most of their dead and wounded; but one of our wounded pickets whom they left in a house adjacent to the battle field said they admitted having h