Posted on 11/12/2023 5:59:35 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Nov. 11.
It is positively ascertained that the whole rebel infantry force crossed the Rapidan on Sunday last. The only forces left this side are recoconnoitering bands of STUART'S cavalry, covering the rebel front on the south bank of the Rapidan, which they are fortifying with care.
The recrossing of the rebels was accelerated by KILPATRICK's cavalry, who dashed upon the enemy's rear-guard at Stevensburgh, and after a brief fight drove them into their intrenchments across the Rapidan. He captured about fifty prisoners. Citizens in the vicinity of Stevensburgh state that the enemy's force engaged on this occasion was double ours in number, and that their retreat was disgraceful.
The intention of the rebels to rendezvous this Winter between the Rappahannock and the Rapidan, is established by the fact, that from Brandy Station to the Rapidan, log huts, capable of accommodating fifty thousand men, have been erected. The road to Stevensburgh, on both sides, is flanked by these evidences of contemplated occupation, some of them very complete, and others unfinished. These cabins are not ordinary mud and wood hovels, but many are carefully roofed with pine planks. Nearly all the officers' quarters were provided with chimneeys of mud and brick, and other evidence of their intention to go into Winter quarters. The main rebel army, it is positively ascertained, is encamped at Gordonsville.
The camps proposed for the rebel Winter quarters were connected by corduroy roads miles in extent, and of the most permanent character, vastly better than we construct. Their rifle pits were equally superior to ours, and most carefully made, showing their intention to hold them.
As usual the rebel pickets are doubled on the line of the Rapidan.
Our advance on Saturday effected one of its objects in the preservation of twenty-four
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