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k nearly 3,000 prisoners. Their gunboats prevented a more complete victory. A dispatch received last night says that 500 of our cavalry had attacked the Federals, killing many, and capturing 48 prisoners. Passengers by the morning train assert, positively, that Gen. Buell was killed. Also, that a truce had been agreed to on both sides for two days to bury the dead. The enemy only attacked when reinforced, and every time we whipped them back under cover of their gunboats. Gen. Prentiss told Gen. Beauregard that he had 60,000 of the flower of the Federal army, but that he should not whip 125,000 Confederates. Gen. B. replied that he had in the fight only 38,000 men, and could whip the Federals three to one on a fair field. The 21st Alabama regiment covered itself with glory. All behaved nobly, and fought with great valor. Their charges were irresistible. Many of the rumors from the battle are unfounded. I send you only such reports as are deemed reliable.