November 11, 1863, The New York Herald
The latest news from General Meade’s army reports no fighting on yesterday. Between six and seven hundred of the enemy were captured near Culpepper. Our pickets near Warrenton Junction were in sight of Mosby’s pickets all day yesterday, but no collision took place.
General Buford’s cavalry had a skirmish with the enemy near Culpepper on Monday, and after a brief fight and charge through the town drove them before him. They finally retired beyond the Rapidan. Our lines now extend from Culpepper to the Rapidan.
Official despatches recounting the late victory of Generals Averill and Duffie at Lewisburg, Western Virginia, have been received from Brigadier General Kelley.
Despatches from Leavenworth, Kansas, yesterday, say that the rebels under Cooper and Shelby, having escaped from our troops, crossed the Arkansas river with a force of nine thousand men, and were then marching on General Blunt, who had only a force of one thousand eight hundred cavalry, who were acting as an escort to a heavy supply train bound for Fort Smith. General Blunt had reduced the number of his train, and was putting his force in a position to resist the enemy.
The expression of opinion elicited at the Union meeting held in Little Rock, Arkansas, on the 30th ult., was unmistakably in favor of the cordial support of the United States government, the supremacy of which the resolutions adopted there pledged the people of Arkansas to uphold.
Our correspondents at Chattanooga furnish some very interesting details today of the late battles in that vicinity, together with an official list of the casualties. The defences of Chattanooga are now perfect, and its vast importance as a military position is more manifest than ever.
A despatch from Chattanooga yesterday says that refugees from the rebel army report General Bragg to be evacuating his position in front of Chattanooga and falling back to Rome or Atlanta. General Longstreet was said to be organizing a force for a raid on our line of communication at Bridgeport.