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the battle near Culpeper Court house.
Mobile. Aug. 17.
--A special dispatch to the Tribune, dated Grenada, August 18th, says: ‘
Northern dates of the 11th and 12th have been received.
They say their force retired from the field when overpowered by numbers; their infantry were badly cut up, and that Culpeper is one vast hospital. ’
Gen. Geary's brigade, 2,000 strong, lost 1,600 in charging a Confederate battery.
The 5th Ohio was nearly annihilated.
The 3d Wisconsin stampeded from the battle field.
The reception of the news in New York caused stocks to go down and gold to go up.
The Chicago Tribune says that Jackson evidently out generated and defeated Pope.
The Memphis correspondent of the Chicago Tribune has been arrested for disloyalty.
A number of deserters from Sherman's army arrived here this evening, and report that great dissatisfaction exists in that army.
Gen. Curtis is reported to have landed a large portion of his army on this side of the river again.
A special dispatch to the Advertiser and Register, dated Knoxville, August 16, says that information from Cumberland Gap states that the Yankee Morgan was retreating with his forces, leaving only one tory Tennessee regiment there.
Gen. McCook's body arrived at Louisville on the 7th, Many guerrillas have been bung by McCook's forces, and many houses burnt and the country laid waste around Salem, where Gen. McCook was killed.
Jackson, Aug. 16.--Advices from Memphis state that on the authority of orders from Washington.
Gen. Grant has issued an order stating that every possible facility will be afforded for getting cotton to market.
It is reported that Gen. Alcorn has been seized as a hostage for the traitor Powell.
The enemy continue their course of devastation wherever an opportunity offers. 