Detroit, Mich., Jan 9.
The Legislature ye.terday re-elected
Chandler Senator for six years.
Gold.—The last report from New York
quotes gold at 40 cts. premium.
The 7th Wisconsin Reg’t at the Battle of Fredericksburg.
Camp of this 7th Rko’t Wis Vol. >
Near Belle Plain, Va. Dec. 31at. >
Friend Cover :—Knowing that our
friends in Grant are always glad to hear
from and thinking that an account of
the part taken by the 7th in the battle of
Fredericksburg would be the most inter
esting of anything we could give at present
we concluded to send you Col. Robinson’s
official report of the conduct of tho 7th
Row’t. in tne late engagement near Fred
icksburg. Robert Monteith.
HtADQCARTERS’TH Rk«*T. WIS Vol. ?
Near Belli I’lain, Va., Dec. 25th 1802. J
J. W. Shafer, Ist Lieut. & A. A. G.
4ih Brigade’.— Sir:
I respectfully submit the following re
port of the conduct of the 7th Reg’t. Wis-
Vol. under my command in the late en
gagements, near Fredericksburg. A re
port in detail of the maneuvers of the
regiment during the engagemenu will be
unnecessary, inasmuch as all the move
ments were under the eye and in pursu
ance of orders from or through the Brig.
