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votion. All the ladies in the village are spending night and day with the wounded. In killed and wounded no battle of the war will approach it. The rebels seem to take off our officers almost before they have time to draw their men up in line of battle. Nearly all the rebel officers cannot be distinguished from the privates a short distance off. Our own can be seen a mile. The loss, however, in officers in the rebel ranks must have been very great. The bodies of Gen. Anderson and Gen. Whiting were this morning found lying among our own dead. Between forty and fifty rebel captains and lieutenants have also been found and brought to our hospitals. I have conversed with many of them, and they all admit a very heavy loss. The rebels have not all crossed the Potomac — sharp fighting going on all day Sunday at the Fords. The Washington Star, of the evening of the 22d, has the following: We apprehend that the statement in this morning's papers, that the rebels had al