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JACKSON’S RAID AROUND POPE.

SUPPER AFTER A HARD MARCH.

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hands. J Early next morning A. P. Hill ’s division and mine were moved tothe Junction, Ewell’s remaining at Bristoe.

Our troops at Manassas had barely been placed in position before a gallanteffort was made by General Taylor, with a New Jersey brigade, to drive offthe supposed raiding party and recapture the stores; but, rushing upon over-whelming numbers, he lost his own life, two hundred prisoners, and the trainthat had transported them from Alexandria. The railroad bridge over BullRun was destroyed, severing communication with Alexandria, the roads werepicketed, and Eitz Lee’s cavalry pushed forward as far as Fairfax CourtHouse on the turnpike and Burke’s Station on the railroad. The long marchof over fifty-six miles in two days entitled Jackson’s men to a holiday, andthe day of rest at Manassas Junction was fully enjoyed. There was no

} The guns captured at Manassas Junction ap-pear to have belonged to the 11th New York bat-tery, Captain Albert A. von Puttkammer, who lost6 guns ; one section of Battery C, 1st New YorkArtillery, Lieutenant Samuel R. James, 2 guns.Part of one company of the 12th PennsylvaniaCavalry, which had been driven in from Bristoe,was captured. Captain von Puttkammer saved twoof his guns and presently fell in with the advanceof the 2d New York Heavy Artillery, ColonelGustav Waagner (about GOO strong), which hadbeen hurried forward from Washington. Theseforces, later in the morning, had a brief contestwith Branch’s brigade, moving on Union Mills atthe head of A. P. Hill ’s division. Waagner’s forcewas soon driven oif, and in his retreat was harriedby Pitzhugh Lee’s cavalry from Centreville to Fair-

fax, where they met the 14th Massachusetts reg-iment (1st Massachusetts Heavy Artillery), Col.W. B. Greene, winch had also been ordered for-ward. Colonel L. B. Pierce, 12th PennsylvaniaCavalry, was ill and in the hospital at Manassas ;the rest of his regiment had been sent towardWhite Plains , and a portion of it seems to haveencountered the advance of Stuart’s cavalry atHay Market and Gainesville ; “the remains” ofthis regiment, as General McClellan describesthem, were reunited near Alexandria.

Shortly after driving off Waagner’s force, A. P.Hill’s advance met and overpowered Taylor’s NewJersey brigade of Slocum’s division supported bypart of Scammon’s brigade of the Kanawha divis-ion. Taylor and Scammon were hurrying forwardfrom Washington.— Editors.