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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 28, 863

for the Prince of Wales's marriage. He was seen
marching through the streets at the head of a mob,
who halted opposite the houses of those whose loyal
displays displeased them, and, in obedience to nega-
tive but well-understood diitctions from him, dis-
charged volleys of stones at the windows. He was
sentenced to six months' imprisonment.

siterane de
whg
Ewell. As it was, the whole operation was timed
Ewell against Winchester was swift, silent, and
oievsrteenwmheoffiveeehcdtt
byat
ko eamss
utiethzoiuinrigeshrpyit.rhaetii,lhoaner gmferaeorn:dhGoc
Genera
successful; the occupation of the three great gape in
the mountain range was timed to a minute. In vain
did General Hooker start off a body of his cavalry
to race for the possession of the northernmost road
through S7icker's Gap. They found. General Fitz-
hugh Lee already in possession, and behind him
one of the finest infantry divisions in the Confede-
rate army. In vain did the Foderal cavalry and
General Pleasanton race for possession of the next,
or Ashby's Gap, supported by a large hp .3.3, of artil-
lery and infantry. There they found Gen. Stuart
and his cavalry thrown out in advance of the Gap
at a little place called Aldie, and here, on the 17th
and 19th inst., there were fierce skirmishes between
the antagonists, in the latter of which a Prussian
officer named Major von Borcke, the chief of Gene-
ral Stuart's staff, wall known to and much esteemed
by all English visitors who have recently repaired
to General Lee's army, received a severe wound
from a bullet in his neck, which passed between the
trachea and [esophagus and lodged in the muscles
at the back of the neck. It cannot be denied that
the wound is a very serious one, but up to the 21st
inst., although the bullet could not be found, the
Major's condition was favourable and no bad symp-
toms had arisen ; but on the 21st the Federals had
advanced as far as a small town called Upper-
ville, in which the Major was lying, and there is
much reason to fear that he was yesterday taken
prisoner. It will be understood that Upperville and
Aldie are considerably in advance of—that is to say,
to the east—of Ashby's Gap, and that General Lee
is only too anxious to draw the Federals on into the
gap. For this purpose General Stuart has been
unsupported by any infantry, and has constantly
fallen back to draw his opponents on, In this there

is little chauce of his being successful, as the gap
could be held by one brigade against the whole of
General Hooker's army. Thirdly, at Chester's Gap

the road which traverses the mountain near Front
Royal has been seized by General A. P. Hill, and
with these three gaps in his possession, General
Lee can hold them if he pleases with insignificant
bodies of men, and behind the screen of the moun-

tains can play any pranks that he likes, unseen by
and beyond the reach of the baffied General
Hooker.

Although from my past experience of the long
delay which intervenes between the expedition of
each of my letters and its arrival in England
there is little encouragement to report facts of
which some knowledge, though perhaps an imperfect
one, will have reached your readers at least a month
before their perusal of this letter, and though I am
consequently thrown back upon mere comments
upon those facts, it may perhaps be not without
interest to them to learn the exact particulars of
the attack of " Stonewall" Jackson's veterans,
under the leadership of the one-legged General
Ewell (his other leg having been left on the
field at the second battle of Manassas), upon the
little city of Winchester. Frequently during these
last few months has the cry of agony extorted by
General and Mrs. Milroy from the unhappy resi-
dents of Winchester reached General Lee's ears,
but something has always intervened to distract
his attention, and to prolong the tenure of General
Milroy's sway. At length, when the time for medi-
tating an advance into Maryland and Pennsylvania
seemed at hand, Gen. Lee resolved to anticipate the
movement of his entire force by launching General
Ewell and his corps swiftly and suddenly against
Gen. Milroy. It the Federals lacked any further
ideace how odious and abhorred is their presence
in the eyes of the Virginians, let them seek it in the
circumstances which accompanied the advance of
Gen. Ewell. From Fredericksburg to Winchester, a
distance of more than 90 miles—through many
hamlets and villages, and through a country which,
for Northern Virginia, may be called densely peo-
pied—G2n. Ewell and his 25,000 men silently made
their way, and throughout that whole distance
neither man nor woman was found to carry to Gan.
Milroy warning that Nemesis was at hand. The
first :'.ntimation that reached the Yankee tyrant of
his enemy's approach was the fire of Gen. Ewell's
advanced guard upon the pickets of the Federals.
It will be believed that it was not long before the
Yankees, finding themselves in presence of a largely
superior force, fell back into the town, and if Win-
chester, instead of being on Virginian, had been on
Pennsylvanian soil, the matter would probably have
ended upon the first day—the 13th inst.—by Gen.
Ewell's desiring the women and non-combatants to
pass out through his lines, and shelling the town
until Gen. Milroy and his men surrendered. As it
was, Gen. Ewell, wishing to get his enemy out of the
town, left open for him a bolt hole into two large forts
which overhang the town, and thither, at a very early
hour in the morning of Sunday, the 14th of June,
Gen. Milroy and his army, perhaps 7,000 strong,
hastily repaired. Upon the previous day it was
intimated to General Ewell that unless Milroy
was permitted to march out with all his stores,
cannon, and ammunition, he had resolved that he
would burn the town. Learning this General
Ewell made known that if the torch was applied
he would burn up all the Federals by driving them
back into the flames, and that if any of them
escaped he would hang them on the spot. Gaining
nothing by this motion, General Milroy earnestly
addressed himself to the consideration of the best
method open to him for escaping, and, doubtless,
although the exact details of his escape are un-
known, he displayed mach ingenuity in rescuing
his neck from the halter. It is believed that in
civilian dress, and accompanied by some 2,000 men,
he struck out of the. town by an old country road in
the direction of Charlestown, a place which lies on
the road from Winchester to Harper's Ferry, and
which gained some celebrity a few years ago as
having witnessed the trial and execution of the
famous John Brown. It was at a very early hour
on Monday morning that General Milroy's escape
was made, and there is little doubt that the com-
mand of General Johnson, to whose care was com-
mitted the guardianship of the road in question,
was partially taken by surprise, and was broken
through before Milroy and his companions could be
stopped. Be this as it may, it is certain that Mil-
roy escaped, nor is it less certain that if he had
been taken alive he would have forfeited his life,
having, like General Butler and others, been put
hors le roi by President Davis's proclamation.

To return to Sunday, the day preceding the
escape of General Milroy : I have mentioned that
most of the Federals in the town betook them-
selves to the two forts which impend over it, and
thence they threw shells actively against the Con-
federates during the whole morning. A little after
midday the Confederates, having planted their guns
upon a hill, which was pointed out to me last Octo-
ber by Colonel Wolseley as dangerously command-
ing the two forts, opened fire briskly upon them,
and under cover of their fire the Louisiana
brigade advanced to storm. Dashing gallantly
forward with the fire and elan specially charac-
teristic of the soldier of Louisiana, they carried two
out of the three bastions without sustaining mare
than a trifling loss, an 3 drove the Federals headlong
out of tha forts. Of these fugitives
3,000 were taken ptiscners about b
fourno mlielsess from
n
Winchester, on the road to INlartins urg, where
they were intercepted by a Etr‘.ng Confederate
force force commanded (if I mistake not)
01f,:i0armtioursehuwtegreitesealpf-.
Rhodes, and from 1,2000dt0
turgid in the neighbourho
more than 100 officers being included among the
prisoners. Thirty
pieces of artillery, between 100
and 200 waggons,
large commissary, clothing, and
medical stems, and about 400 horses) the rest hay.
aiding
gds the
of
ire; been pressed into the service of a
flight of the terrified Yankees) fell into the
the Confederates in the town of Winchesier—a
weighty loss according to the computation of any

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other Government on earth save that- which at
Washington lavishes its millions in vain, and re-
joices at disasters such as those at Chaneelloreville
end Winchester as enabling it to issue fresh con-
tracts to a few blood-bucking contractors, who
clameer lendly and lead on a blinded and mis-
guided populace to clamour not less loudly for a
continuance of this hopeless and miserable war.
;'he whole loss of the Confederates', in killed.
.vounded, and missing, was less than 200.
It will be believed that the news a; the surprise
of winches,er arid the capture of about 5,000 out
of ameral Milroy's entire force of 7,000, ered of nil
his stores, waggons, awl artillery, although dis-
ouised behind unusually magnificent mendacity,
was a startling blow to the North, and, above all, to
the hL,sterical Governor of Pennsylvania. General
Hooker, moreover, appears for severe' past days to
nave been far from comfortable, and to have been
in profound ignorance where to find General
Lee and his army. Simultaneously across the
Potomac, fixing his head-quarters at B,oones_-
borough, in Maryland, advanced Gen. Ewell, ena
there for some days has he squatted, receiving large
supplies of horses' forage and all manner of provi-
sions from Generals Jenkins end Imboden, who
have not been idle since they arrived in Pennsyl-
vania and Maryland. It is known here that consi-
derable damage has been done to the Baltimore end
Ohio Railroad by Gen. Imboden, which, for about
the tenth time since the commencement of this war,
has been torn up, and has had its bridges destroyed.
It is understood that Gen. Imboden destroyed a
large wrought iron bridge near Cumberland, which
it had previously been difficult to damage, by firing
round shot out of a 6-pounder gun at the girders
and props, and breaking down the whole fabric into
the stream (called, if I mistake not, Patterson's
Creek) which the bridge used to span. How far
the active Confederate cavalry may have penetrated
into Pennsylvania will have reached your readers,
probably not without exaggeration, long before the
arrival of this letter. But it is evident from the
Northern papers, which, in our present position,
reach us abundantly within two days of their publi-
cation in Washington, that the expectations gene-
rally entertained that Gen. Lee's irruption into
Pennsylvannia will be a brief agony—a sort of mau-
cais quart d'heure, which has to be met and sur-
mounted by terrified militiaman—is likely to prove
a delusion. Nothing can at this moment exceed
the deliberation of Gen. Lee's movements. It was
necessary after the army left Culpepper to lose no
time in seizing the gaps which I have mentioned
above; and during the march of the 16th, 17th,
and 18th inst. the men, driven forward with all
possible speed, suffered terribly by reason of the
intense heat. On the 17th the glass stood all
day at 92 deg. On the 18th, from 9 a.m. till 4
p.m., it touched 98. It will be imagined that
dozens of men fainted and fell, smitten down by the
sun, and were by their comrades, according to the
never-failing rule in all armies, instantly reported
dead. Although there were undoubtedly many
such sunstrokes, I have not as yet heard of any that
terminated fatally. But if the Confederates during
those three trying days suffered grievously, it is
evident from the accounts in the Northern papers
that the sufferings of their enemy were far more
severe. Marching, as were the Confederates, along
the Blue Ridge, they found abundant springs of cool
and excellent limestone water, whereas the march
of the Federals was over cue of the thirstiest plains
in Virginia—a district which last year retarded the
foot cavalry of Stonewall Jackson for several days,
and delayed the discomfiture of the bombastic Gen.
Pope, and which, upon the 17th and 18th instant,
doubtless took ample toll from the host of Gen.
Hooker. It is in such marches that the reckless
wastefulnees of the Federal soldier, springing from
the faciiity with which he gets new clothes, a new
knapsack, and canteen, whenever he calls for them,
is abundantly portrayed, How many thousand
dollars worth of clothing, blankets, overcoats, and
oil-cloths strewed the plain on such a day as the
17th of June it is not necessary to compute, but
enough in all probability to have enabled such an
Economist as Frederick the Great to support one or
two months of war. Upon the afternoon of the
18th a tremendous thunderstorm, accompanied by
deluges of rain, brought us relief, and since tha
time the weather has been unpleasantly cool.

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