The New York herald., 1862-10-13
INTERESTING REBEL NEWS.
accounts f0m the Rebel lamps and Inc Rebel
Capital from Rebel SOurtsa

WnaS the heocB Are Doing. AND What
Tksy Think They Can Do,
Ouv WAshington Cors~spondsuce.
WASHINGTON Oct 10, 1862.
Ns1s fyo~ Resessx VJgsaa-Lss on tAe SAenaadoaA-
Ms Disposition g HIS Jsckssm and Hiu Cs~Jro~t
AcCssEas-LOsssssd Reserps--Lee's T0al Nrcs-
JoIssses The EappaAaaassk--H Ebree-N.!aayy
Roads Besro Ccsatraoted from the Valley 10 As RAD.
ros-TA Rsoel HasPitais and perMs-7Ae CsotAsns and
Ftsa'na cf Me Rebd army, DC, dc.
have reate news q The situation ar condition
AFFAIRS within ihe rebel lines ny 10 Saturday October
A, that time Iccs army was snl 10 the valley be;ween
Wmrhcster ard Harpers Ferry. Jacksou's corps
The east banof Opequan creek fronting towards Iarpere
ferry tho Ndvasce occupying Cbarlcstown IN conslde
rabae force. A. r. Huns corps the west side Of .e
creek Al Bunxcr Hill his piokets reaching east towar lie
Shepherdsiews and north towards Martinsbur4. Long
streets corps held higher up the creek,
where thr railroad All these cerps have bee.
reinforced by OLE and troops since the aattle Of
tictan, as strong in numbers il no:
pluck Several treades 81 and aroan6 Win
chester, consisting cf the troops whoh suffered
most n ADtelam. which were 70 be relieved from
active duty ~ soon other troops already arriving,
took their places One ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS at
BerryviDs. uear 1hs Shenandoah river, which had
scouts and pickes the river the region around
Leesburs This IS tho division which attacked Miles
from Loudon Heights, and net in tho fight o. tho
l7th u Lees army had certainly been reinforced by
rs 600 troope-od and he recrossed the Po-
somac and his total force in the valley, up the above
da'e was not less than 95 000 He Is ortifying
any point in the valley.
Ny information Of the situation south Of the Shsnan.
0oah is three days lator--up 70 Tuesday October Z.
There was small orce-about segiment-a Strasburg,
north Of ihe river; brigade Is a Front Royal, and
another ~ Or near Sperryvls None Of these troops
were 10 the batto Of Antetam, but part Of those
On the way<o reinforce Lee at the time At Culpeppsr
three brgades which have small advanced forces al
Rappahanoeck Station and a Sulphur Springs
dong picket and scout duty in the country between
The upper Rappanannock and tho Manassas Gap Rail-
road These troops under the command Of General
Joe Johnston, whose headquarters at Cor
louisville, wherc he has much larger force,
consisting OF D. II. Hills and Whtneys divisions
and several Independent brgades OF old new troops
These 10 forward to the line OF the Rappahan
oock or the Shenandoah, q day two All OF John.
stems forces number about forty thousand There
considerable force somewhere Immediately south or
southwest Of Fredericksburg.
Construction parties engaged on all the com
MOI roads from Winchester to Harrisonburg from the
latter place 10 Stanton and Gordonsve; from Front
Royal 10 Cupepper via Sperryvile, and from the
place TO Gordonsvile via Little Washington and Madison
improving them for military purposes. They bridg-
sng small streams cutting down steep hills filling up and
nendipg the road beds. These improvements may be
intended facilitate Lees the valley; but
they understood 10 be made with a the per-
nanent occupation Of that region during the winter
and therefore, intended help transportation Of
supplies.
There troops at Staunton except convalescents
and sick and wounded. There small hospitals at
Winchester, Front Royal Luray Cupepper and Gordons
Vile hut the principal at Charlottesville and
Saunton where there less than Eve thousand sick
and wounded
Gordonsve and Sarnton also the two principal
pots Of ammunition and supplies for Johnston's and
Lee armies Trains constantly coming going
these places carrying sick and wounded and returning
with supplies. The rebel army appears much better
supplied with transportation than before. Many OF
theT wagons are new, Of their manufacture, ond
others are said TO have been captured from Pope.
Some or the rebel troops have lately received new
clothes and Shoes and il understood supply sufficient
for ali the rest is the way from Richmond and Lynch
burg The blankets lately issued all WOOL Of the best
quaiy and better than those Of soldiers. hey are
similar in texture and appearance 70 the article
known as Macknaw blankets Inc most Of the shoes
coarse and scany N 1pber leather but strong well
-
turc iewboots and shoes Of the best qua!ty-ev
osnuy 81 Yankee make. The Confederate
"ohvds have q supply sufficient 10 give each
sosfier pair, part Of which made in Europe
and part IN the North. They the blockade and
probably include many cargoes lately smugged
up the Rappahannock The clothes Of the prvates
msde Of heavy gray jeans Of wool and cottonSouth
manufacture Many Of the have horn buttons
The cIoihpg Of the officers of the gray cioh-ev
gilt buttons stamped A. $ c. A., but with little other
Happings. Gray cloth caps-many without leather
facingsare aso being drawn Each soldier has cot
Ton Shirts flannel very coarse pairs cot
ton drawers; but no socks have yet been issued.
This description OF clothing applies only > small por
on Of The rebel army in Virginia. the large majority up
10 few days ago. not having received expected supplies
Of the hind bat there doubt the government has
them hand
quantity but not quality. Plenty Of -four and corn
meal, with fresh beef and occasionally pork, is now
ssncd Rice is plenty but the soldiers regard the
hardest fare unless they have moasses with which is
very seldom Tea coffee and sugar hospital Injuries
Salt IS tar abundant than formerly, and ie now
issued regularly.
Our Baltimore, ,Correspo ndence.
BALTIMORE Oct 10, 1862.
Nacs from Riclnond-Ssoddy Display n Rebeldom-- De
sacs Of the CRy-P,aing the Maoosines d the Forts--
Condemnation and DaSrult4oa Of RL.- Made Gaapoac.
ser--Sowaera YieD Of Gen Lcs Progrdmme-Appre-
heassoH Of an Atack on Char1aos-S -Sigeneh and