--The correspondent of the Charleston
Mercury, writing from this city, says:
‘
In his congratulatory order
Gen. Lee calls the victory "glorious"--a very strong term for him to use. I am satisfied that old man Bob's back was up as it never was before.
You see both his arms were gone —
Jackson wounded and
Longstreet away — and he was forced to the ungraceful process of kicking "Fighting Joe" out of his path.
This made him mad, really mad, for the first time since the war began; and so when he had settled
Sedgwick, he rushed back through a terrible storm to finish with
Hooker.
He was in for blood, and no mistake.
Hooker, delighted at the excuse of a freshet, had departed.
’