Information received from
Culpeper county by the train last evening furnishes us an account of a pretty severe cavalry fight in
Culpeper county, in the immediate neighborhood of the old battle-field of
Brandy Station, on Saturday last.
We could only obtain confused reports of this fight, but from these we gather that the enemy, in a force consisting of some three brigades of cavalry, advanced on our line of pickets in the early part of the day. The picket force was composed of the 12th Virginia regiment,
Gen. Mahone's brigade.
This force resisted the enemy until
Hampton's cavalry came up, when the battle was joined between our cavalry and that of the enemy.
During some portions of the engagement the fighting is represented to have been very severe.
In the early part of the fight
Capt. E. W. Branch, commanding the Grays, from this city, was killed, and his body brought to the city by the
Central train last evening.
Hampton's Legion sustained the greater part of the loss inflicted upon us.
Col. Black was shot through the hand with a Minnie ball;
Col. Baker's arm was shattered, and
Col. Young received a severe wound in the breast.
The Legion is now commanded by a
Lieutenant Colonel.
Our cavalry fought them a distance of six miles, gradually falling back upon our infantry supports.
The enemy, however, did not afford these supports an opportunity to engage in the fight, but retired as soon as they came up. Our loss was some fifteen killed and from sixty to seventy wounded. The loss of the enemy was not known by any one with whom we conversed.
It is not improbable that this light is the immediate forerunner of an engagement on a much larger scale.
Passengers by the
Central train report that the
Yankee General Slocum's corps has crossed the
Rappahannock, and is now on the
South side of that stream.
This movement m only a feint to cover the real movements of the main body in the direction of
Fredericksburg.
Fredericksburg we have nothing later.
Everything was reported quiet there yesterday.
