[828] manner in which war was made in the Alleghanies. He will admit that the Federals, taught by experience, will henceforth offer to the Confederates the same results by the raids of which the latter seemed, until then, to possess the secret. Redeeming the error which had brought to him disgrace after Chancellorsville, Averell has learned, like Stuart, how to evade all the dispositions made by his adversaries in order to surround him, and his campaign has in a brilliant manner terminated the year 1863, which has witnessed so much bloodshed between the Rappahannock and the Susquehanna.