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ed a message from Gen Backs announcing his defeat and retreat. Of course the flotilla had to follow suit. "What could we do but come back?" says an officer attached to one of the gunboats. The water was falling; we had 25 transports to protect, which the rebel army might destroy, beside inflicting other injury on us. We came back and literary fought our way through. The rebel army attacked us at every point, and we have fought them for the last three days steadily. Yesterday, the 12th, about 25 miles above here, Gen Greene attacked the gunboats and transports with 2,500 men and three pieces of artillery. We opened on them immediately, secured a cross fire on them, and although the banks were very high, we gained a brilliant victory. In halt an hour their artillery was silenced, with two pieces disabled, and in another half hour they were completely routed. Over 200 were killed outright, 200 or 300 wounded, muskets, knapsacks, &c., lying all around the field, and their o