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ation. It was ascertained that the rebels have, on the extremity of their right wing, at Stony creek, seven thousand cavalry and infantry, strongly entrenched. Some deserters from our lines below Richmond having made oath before Beast Butler that eighty Yankee negro soldiers were taken out of Castle Thunder and carried down to work in the trenches, has sent the following letter to Commissioner Ould: Headquarters Department of Virginia and North Carolina, Army of the James, October 12, 1864. Sir: I enclose herewith an affidavit showing the employment of one hundred and ten (110) United States colored soldiers by the military officers of the Confederate forces in the trenches near Fort Gilmer--a practice justified by no rule of war or claim heretofore made by the Confederate authorities. I have ordered a like number of the officers and soldiers captured by us (preferably, as many of the Virginia reserve forces — by whom this outrage is being done — as I have capt