How Col. Corcoran Was Taken

A letter rèoeived by Bírs. Corearan froin her husband, a prUoaar ;t Kichmond, thus relates (ha story of hia capture : "My regiment camo off the field t admirable ordar and ware on tlje roac to Oentraville, where I halted to y -.i.. and await orders for future acüon, kfiQwtag that our artillery would ueed protection in roturuing. Two reginaeatï that had aot been in line, an were returning in disorder, Innig ou my flank, and whoo the cavalry vvero seen advaneing towarda us, these regimenU. broke prucip.tately turough my linea, throvying us into disorder and caused a general Bight. _ . "1 disniouiited and crossed a rait fence, over which thoy ha 1 gone, and got tho oolor-bearer to halt, and called on the men to rally around the ilag; but just at thia moment a discharge of carbines í'roin tho pui-suing cavalry and QUr ovn artillery drovvnod my voiee, and destroyed all my effrta to tmwter the men. 'i had nnly nine men who heard roe and halted, and those, with the two officers and myself, were iinmediately Hurroundod and taken to. MaDassaa that night, We lelt there the fbllowing morning, and arrived hera Tuesday night."