The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-11 00:00:00

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THE CONFEDERATES IN VIRG •
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From Baltimore we have, under dat, 014L,34.if •••
the following information respecting Ge.114,1tR44-14; " 4
army :—" Their ranks, like.those of our . iste:
ments, had been fearfully thinned by the •dam
casualties of war, and many of them were red Wed S
from 1,000 to 500, and in some cases to 300 mien.
The new conscripts were sent at once to fill up the
old regiments, and the consequence is that by" this
time nearly all the old regiments are once more
restored to their original strength. This is esp.':-
cially the case with the regiments composing the•
Confederate army near Winchester. In addition
to this means of recruiting his forces, General Lee's
effective strength has been gradually and steadily
increased during the last four weeks by reinthree-
ments of old regiments which were not under his
orders at the battle of Antietam, but which since
that time have been drawn from other point*. Fliw
effective strength a week ago to-day was fully
130,4)00 troops. During the last month the Conft.
derate
ovek:nment has established fuur immense
depots of army Supplies in Virginia, name!), at
Lynchburg, at Burk,-esville, at Gordonsville, and at
Stauntot. The depot); at Lynchburg and Burkes-
ville were used for the ste:rage of bales of blankets,
woollen clothing, and other ,articles of that descrip-
tion, which, being of foreign o.,;anufacture, must, of
course, have been brought in ve..sels that ran the
blockade. In these storehouses, t.. 10, are immense,
quantities of salted meat, flour, beaus, corn, and
oats, brought from Kentucky and Tennessee.
Several of the large buildings formerly used for
tobacco warehouses are now entirely filled with
these commodities. The depots at Gordonsville
and Staunton also contain smaller quantities of
these articles, but they are principally used
for the storage of the grain, fruit, and other produc-
tions of the rich and fertile Shenandoah valley,
which have been pouring into them during the last
six. weeks, At these places, also, there are immense
herds of cattle, which have been collected in the
valley. The valley, however, has been by no means
drained of its productions. At Staunton, George-
town, Furloytown, MEartishurg.-o,nd at seveiAl other
places, the nAmes of which I forget, there are
smaller depots of supplies of the more perishable
articles, which are forwarded to the army near
Winchester, as they arzl needed. The engineer de-
partment of the Confeder.‘te army has been actively
employed for a month past in improving the roads
leading from Staunton,Gordorewille, and Culpepper,
to Winchester. There are no' sick or wounded
soldiers in any of General Lee's amps. All such
were sent South as soon as they be
'Come disabled.
Since the battle of Antietam hundreds' of them have
been restored to health and have 'rejeined their
regiments, but there are still several th.
losands at
the great hospital at Charlottesville. It stated
that there will be no lack of blankets or o.f com-
fortable clothing this winter in the Confederate
army, and that all of General Lee's soldier eit her
have or are receiving these articles."