The Daily Dispatch: October 7, 1863., [Electronic resource]

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Fight near Vidalia, La.

--The Mobile Tribune learns from a gentleman who is a bearer of dispatches to Richmond the following particulars of a battle near Vidalia, La. He states that on the 18th inst. our forces, some 1,200 strong, commanded by Gen. Majors, succeeded in getting the enemy, (in command of--,) numbering 1,200 to 1,500 troops, into an ambush and killed seventeen. Afterwards Gen. Majors got them into a second ambush and killed sixty two more. In the after skirmishing our forces killed about one hundred and forty additional, and captured about 300 negroes, who made their escape or were otherwise disposed of. The negro encampment on the west side of the river was completely broken up and all of the camp equipage, &c., secured. This encampment was a place of rendezvous for the negroes, who were being, and prepared for active service. All of the enemy's forces, negroes, &c., who escaped were driven to the east side of the river into Natchez.

Our informant also reports that the enemy have landed at Berwick's Bay in large force. They marched out of Berwick's Bay to Pattersonville, 25 miles from the bay.--Their advanced column, it is supposed, numbered about twelve or fifteen regiments.--They were marching on Franklin, but it is supposed that they had heard of their defeat at Sabine Pass and returned to Berwick's Bay.