We have some additional particulars of the successful exploit of
Brig. Gen. W. E. Jones in
Southwestern Virginia on Saturday, the 3d inst.
Gen. Jones, with his command, entered
Lee county, and by a strategic movement succeeded in cutting off from
Cumberland Gap a regiment of Federals, and by the assistance of a portion of
Col. Slemp's regiment, stationed in that county, captured some six hundred of them on Sunday last at
Jonesville, the county seat of said county, with three pieces of artillery, and all their horses, mules, and wagons.
About two hundred of the
Federals succeeded in eluding the forces of
Gen. Jones, and at last accounts were trying to escape by way of
Pound Gap, in
Wise county.
Gen. Jones's loss was as follows: Killed--
Lieut. Samuels,
Privates Leonidas Love,
Henry Bumgardner, and
Charles Morris, of 8th Virginia cavalry, and
Wm. Shoemaker, of the 26th Virginia battalion. Twelve were wounded.