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This all sounds rather fishy, but they had no artillery, and all our men within reach of their musketry were kept carefully under cover by their commending officers. Gen. Renham wisely received to proceed no further that night. We bivouacked in the open fields, and if I had loved Western Virginia before with all the ardent affection of one of her own gallant bushwhackers, that night would have turned my love to bitter hate. That night at 10 o'clock the General received orders from Gen. Schenck--who had crossed the river at Gauley, but none of whose reinforcements had reached us — to return. We took up our line of march at two o'clock A. M., and reached this place at about one P. M., where both brigades are now stationed. From Washington — the Engineer brigade--Promotion, &c. From the Washington Star, of the 22d inst., we copy the following: Lieut Col. Alexander, of the U. S. Engineers, who is in command of the engineer brigade of the army of the Potomac, is indus