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

It will be helievded that the news of the surprise
of Winchester at/the capture of about 5,000 out
of General Mil oy's entire force of 7,000, and of all
his stores, waggons, ana artillery, although dis-
guised behind unusually magnificent mendacity,
was a startling blow to the North, and, above all, to
the hysterical Governor of Pennsylvania. General
Hooker, moreover, appears for several past days to
have been far from comfortable, and to have been
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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.
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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
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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 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 ma•ny_thonsand
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 ane or
two months of war. Uron 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.