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They planted a battery on the river, which was quickly demolished. We recovered four hundred cattle at the river. Their loss, in killed and captured, is nearly five hundred; fitly were killed. The loss on our side is but thirty-five in killed, wounded and missing. The whole affair is said to have been a brilliant one.A Surgeon, under a flag of true, came hi our lines, after the battle, to search for Gen. Peg nun.Gen. Burnside arrived at Lexington, at six o'clock p. in., and was received with greateclat by the citizens.Cincinnati, April 2.—There is no direct news from Vicksburg.A Lexington dispatch to the Cincinnati Times states that Gen. Gilmore arrived from Somerset this morning. The enemy, numbering 2,000, were overtaken four miles north of Somerset. After five hours fighting the rebels lied, pursued by cavalry, to the river. The rebels lost fifty killed and nearly 400 prisoners, Including twenty officers. We recovered 400 stolen cattle. We lost ten killed and twenty-live wounded. Onr force numbered 1,200.A dispatch has been received at headquarters of the army, from Louisville, April 1, giving the particulars of a successful attack on the enemy in the neighborhood of Somerset, Ky. Gen. Burnside says “the alacrity, vigor and gallantry displayed by our troops are highly commendable.”
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Chicago Daily Tribune
Chicago, Illinois, US
Fri, Apr 03, 1863
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