November 10, 1863, The New York Herald
Heavy firing was heard on Sunday and yesterday in the direction of Culpepper, towards the junction of the Rapidan and Rappahannock. It was thought that it might have proceeded from the light artillery of General Buford’s corps in collision with the enemy.
The Third army corps, followed by the First and Second in order, pursued the enemy on Sunday morning, and about noon came up with a strong force of cavalry and light artillery at Brandy Station. They charged upon them, and drove them from their position, following them up leisurely until dark, when they had forced them up the railroad two miles beyond the station. The country round about was scoured by our troops, along the river and towards Stevensburg, and evidences were found that the enemy contemplated making their winter quarters there. General Lee’s headquarters were found to be a mile north of Brandy Station.
Large numbers of prisoners taken at Rappahannock Station and Kelly’s Ford have arrived at the Old Capitol prison in Washington. Many of them have been sent to Point Lookout. Among those prisoners are one hundred and twenty-five officers. They represent that but few of their companions retreated across the river, and their general commanding had barely time to escape on his horse.
General Kilpatrick is said to have had a fight with the enemy near Stevensburg on Saturday night. The particulars, however, were not known.
News from Western Virginia contains an account of the defeat of the rebel forces under “Mudwall” Jackson, on Friday and Saturday, by Generals Averill and Dufie, in the valley east of the Greenbrier Mountains. The rebels were driven through the town of Lewisburg, which our forces now hold. The enemy abandoned all their supplies, guns and colors, and fled precipitately, leaving their dead and wounded behind.
It is reported in Washington that two of the most advanced positions of General Burnside’s army have been assailed and captured by the enemy, but we have received no confirmation of the statement. It is said by a Washington paper that General Grant has telegraphed to that effect.
There is nothing new from Charleston or the Southwest.
Despatches from rebel sources at Atlanta say that a heavy force of Union troops had reached Tuscaloosa, on the way to Selma, Alabama, by the Tupelo route, over which General Bragg’s army came last summer.
General Magruder has notified all the state troops in Texas to hasten forward to Houston without delay, to resist the “Yankee invasion approaching from Berwick Bay.”