Memphis Daily Appeal

The Fight at Cumberland Gap.

Our information from Cumberland Gap is, that the Federals, in large forces, commenced an attack about noon on Tuesday. They were gallantly received by our forces, and three times repulsed. In the last attack we learn they charged up to the breastworks of the fortifications. The enemy's loss was 130 killed and about 400 wounded. Our loss was 17 killed and about 30 wounded. The last repulse was an effectual one, and sent the Federals, to use one of their own phrases, "skedaddling." They had not, at our last account, renewed the attack.

Gen. Stevenson, who has command of the forces at the Gap, has proved himself the man for the place; and, we learn, possesses the entire confidence of our troops. The fortifications have been approved by all experienced military men who have examined them; and as the enemy's gunboats are not likely to ascend the Cumberland mountains, we may hope that this victory—by no means an unimportant one—is not the last that will be achieved by the heroic band who have so long and gallantly defended that post, barring the door of East Tennessee and Southwestern Virginia against the hosts of Lincoln invaders.—Knoxville Register, 2d.