PARTICULARS OF THE WILLIAMSBURG BATTLE.

Bravery of our Boys.

Williamsburg, May 7, 1862.

Dear Father :—As we have again been in one of these bloody encounters with the rebels, you are of course in the midst of excitement at home, each one anxiously waiting to hear from their own friends and relations in the army. It has been a terrible fight, and many of our friends lay dead on the battle field.— The 2nd N. H. regiment took a prominent part in the fight making the attack, and company B. was the first to drive them from their right position, and kept them at bay fer two and a half long hours, waiting for reinforcements — all our ammunition gone excepting two or three cartridges, which we kept for any emergency, not wishing to fire unless we were sure of our man.

The Mass. 1st came nobly up to our aid, and stood their ground manfully, meeting with a good deal of loss in both killed and wounded. In fact, all of our boys fought well, and bravely, but in the afternoon, we were whipped twice and driven back to the ground where we first attacked them.

The first four day of last week—Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday—were distinguished for the splendid operation and achievements of the Grand Army under General McClellan on the York peninsula.

On Sunday, by a triumph of consummate strategy and engineering skill, McClellan took possession of Yorktown, which the rebel Generals had been compIled to evacuate and retreat ten mile up the peninsula to their works at Williamsburg, where they doubtless calculated upon making good their position.

New Market, Va., May 7.—Yesterday afternoon a detachment of the 9th New York cavalry made a reconnoissance to Harrisburg. When five miles this side they encountered upwards of 200 of Ashby’s cavalry. They charged upon them and pursued them within two miles of the town. Ten rebels were killed and six token prisoners. Our loss was one killed and a battalion adjutant taken prisoner. The work on our side was done with the sabre, and was a very gallant affair.

We have not had, by telegraph a clear and satisfactory account of the fight near Yorktown, in which the Vermont regiments were engaged. Neither do the letters from the army tell all we want to know about its purpose and proceedings. The following from a letter dated near Lee’s Mills, gives the clearest account of it we have seen:—

Correspondence of the Baltimore Republican.

Winchester, March 26, 1862.

Messrs. Editors: It may interest your readers to have some account of the severe battle of Sunday last, near this town. You have already the main facts as stated in the dispatches of the telegraph agents, and it is therefore needless to repeat them. The plain story of the fight, as ascertained and believed by the substantial people of this place is sucinctly thus:

Late on Saturday afternoon some two or three hundred of Col. Ashby’s cavalry, unexpectedly to all parties, military and citizens, made their appearance on thehigh ridge of hills south of the town and signalized their presence with the discharge of a few shells, but not in the direction of any of the houses of the citizens. This, of course, produced great commotion among the Federal military, who immediately commenced moving in all directions; cavalry, infantry, and artillery went thundering and plunging through the town all night, giving our citizens a very impressive idea of the dread commotions and fierce energies of war.

Whoop! the Doodles have broken loose,
Roaring round like the very deuce!
Lice of Egypt, hungry pack,
After ’em boys, and drive ’em back!

Bull-dog, terrier, cur and fice,
Back to the beggardly land of ice;
Worry ’em, bite ‘em, scratch and tear
Everybody and everywhere.

All the information, private and public, that comes from Washington, point to battles soon to be fought and won on the banks of the Rappahannock and York rivers. Sumner's Division…

Camp Butterfield, Hall’s Hill, VA, Feb. 24, 1862

Dear Register:—One month ago to­day in closing a communication for your paper I expressed the hope that I should soon have something of importance to about. Since that time glorious victories have been gained by our troops in Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee and Missouri. Imperishable laurels have been won, and many brave hearts that then beat high with patriotic emotion, now sleep the sleep of the brave; and still the grand army of the Potomac maintains the “masterly inactivity” that has characterized it since the fatal rout at Bull Run.—Occasional reconnoisances, frequent rejoicings over victories, and a visit of the General in-Chief among the troops, are theonly incidents that have occurred to break the monotony of camp life. It has rained the greater part of the time, and almost all drill has been suspended excepting a little target practice, and occasionally a dress parade, when the mud is not too deep. On Saturday, the 22d inst., in compliance with an order from headquarters, all the regiments in this portion of the army were called out to listen to extracts from Washington’s Farewell Address. It was a scene calculated to awaken the liveliest emotions of patriotism.—While the chaplain read with a clear, sonorous voice the parting admonitions of the Father of his country the National airs came floating on the breeze from the bands of a dozen different regiments in the vicinity.