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From General Lee's army. [from our own Correspondent.] Army of Northern Virginia. Spotsylvania C. H., May 10, 1864.
I have written you regularly since my arrival at the headquarters of the army, but tear that some of my letters have not reached you. The Federal cavalry have been in our rear, and may have captured some of our mail carriers.
But little is known here of the operations of the raiding party that passed down the telegraph road towards Beaver Dam Station, on the Central railway; we have heard that they destroyed the houses at the station and a large quantity of army supplies, and that they recaptured 300 prisoners and a few hundred muskets on the way to Richmond.
It is a matter of surprise here that the party was able to pass to the rear without the knowledge of our own cavalry.
We have had more bloody work to day, and again, as at the Wilderness, our losses are miraculously small.
It has been a singular battle, not only in its results, but especially in re