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commissary train, and six thousand prisoners. Banks's loss in killed and wounded was also heavy, while the casualties on our side were light. Several of the enemy's iron-clad fleet participated in this fight, and the New London, one of their first-class gunboats, mounting numerous heavy guns, and which had been in twenty-three engagements previously without having received any damage, was badly riddled, and, according to the enemy's own showing, suffered severely in killed and wounded. Captain Clark says Donaldsonville is still in our possession and well fortified; that we have heavy batteries below the town, by which nothing attempts to pass but the enemy's largest and strongest gunboats, and they only in the darkness of night and not without serious injury; and that our forces are in fine spirits and anxious to retrieve our recent reverses. This intelligence proves the soundness of the position taken by your correspondent in a former letter, that the mendacious reports published