The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-28 00:00:00

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other Government on earth save that which at
Washington lavishes its millions in vain, and re-
joices a
Winchester disasters
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treets to a few blood-sucking contractors, who
clamour loudly anti lead on a blinded and mis-
guided populace to elatacazr not less loudly for a
continuance of this hapsiess and miserable war.
The whole loss of the Confederatw, in killed,
wounded, and missing, was less than 200.
It will be belied that the news of the surprise
of Winchester and the capture of about 5,000 oat
of General Milro:;'s enl ire force of 7,000, and of all
hoafersNfoorrtslle Pennsylvania.,veral
past
days
to
waggons, awl artillery, although dis-
guied behind unusually
General
magnifiacnedn,tamboeln.edaalcli,ttyo,
ly across the
Lee and his army. Simultaneous
at Boones-
borough,Potomac, fixing his head-quartersg
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supplies of horses' forage and all manner of provi-
sions from Generals Jenkins and 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 and
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
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Pennsylvannia will be a brief agony—a sort of nzau-
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Northern papers, which, in our present position,
Creek) which the bridge used to span. How far
probably not without exaggeration, long before the
Confederate
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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 one 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
wastefulness of the Federal soldier, springing from
the facility 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 that
time the weather has been unpleasantly cool.

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