The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-06-19

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There 10 little news in addition to that sl.
ready given with reference to the decisive
victory of tho Confederate forces At Win.
chsster on Sunday last Tho only news we
have received is from parties who have left
the Valley eince the surrender Of Winchester
BY the Fedora! forces, and the reports they
brig are Of the Oct cheering character; but as
to details, and the plan Of battle, we are yet in
ignorance, and ars perhaps destined to remain
SO, unless come one connected with the army
shall feel sufficient interest in tho Important
movements in the Vallsy TO farnish rs with a
conn cted account
The sccounts state that on Friday morning
Gen Eseii, much 10 the surprise of the enc.
my, reached Front Royal, Warren county,
eighteen miles from Winchester, and at once
pushing OF to the latter place, encountered a
force OF the enemy when wi hin some ten
miles of the town, with which sk FINISHING
immediately commenced, the enemy rssiripg
ing in pursuit.
On the morning of Saturday our army re-
newed the advance, the enemy contesting the
ground with soma stubbornness, but were
compelled to continue their retreat. About
noon of that day our forces reached the con-
tinss OF the town, when 6ag of truce YVES
sent III, demanding surrender of the place.
This officer commanding replied that he would
abds the issus of battle, and if attacked
would burn the town, to which Gen. Ewell
answered, if any house was burned other
than those fred by the bombardment, the
black flag would bs hoissed and no quarter
given The assault upon the eDemy's Gu
tsenchme1ts was then commenced, and con.
tinued until dark Al an early hour on Sun
day mofn nins the At:aol -as renewed and con-
tiuued throughout the day, the cannonading
most Of the time being very severe. Ga MOL
day morning, early, the garrison capitulated,
and our army toak possession Of the town, as
well as the works from which the enemy had
been Gis!odged.
With reference to the escape Of Milroy there
Is yet no certainty. One report says that he
was overtaken by our cavalry near the Poto-
mac and Captured, whist another, quite as re
liable, states that he passed through Charles
town. with ais escort, early on Sunday morn
ing, TIE iastsr report, we jadye, 10 much
niore plausible thsn the other, as it is not at
all hkely that he would allow himself to be
overt.ken afser having once penetrated our
lines. If he passed through Charlestown, as
alleged, it is probable he went out from Win.
chester on the Maztinsburg road as far as Ban.
ker Hill, and thence through Smithfield and
Charlestown to Harpers Ferry.
A gentleman who came down from the Val.
ley by the Central train, last evening, gives
the following estimate Of our captures:
Prisoners, from...-....6. 600 to 1000
H0rses- 2,SOO
V6kOuE. 4CU to 1Uu
Stores. 500, 900 to s., 100000
- Lieutenant Charles Norysll, (of Lynch
burg Of the Fourteenth Virginia regiment,
was seriously wounded near Port Royal He
was in command of Capt. Packs company,
who was absent and in conjunction with ono
other company of his regiment, the whole
numbering about 50 men, were pursuing a
body of the retresting enemy, when they were
led into an ambuscads of battery of artillery
masked, and forty Of them killed or wounded,
among them Lieut.. Norvell.
As to tho movements of our army, after the
capture Of Winchester, we have ruuors In
abundance, but think it useless to give them In
their confused FORM We may state, however
that thars is little donbt that our fol ces are tc-
day trea3ing tho soil of Maryland with a
s;ropg probability taat our cavalry a. least
havs crossed Mason's and Dixon's line, ard are
now foraging on the Dutch farmers in the
Cam erland Valley, in Pennsylvania. From
the 70 somac river at Wi'iiamspo1t, via Hagers-
town, to the Pennsylvania line, the distance is
not over fifteen miles, and the country is rich
and prt dactive-just such indeed rs to invite
the attention Of cavalry force at this season
of the year.
Still Later
at the War Department last night the fol-
lowing dispatch was received from Gen. Lee.
MaItiDsbnrg is situated on the Baltimore and
Oaio Railroad, which of course ia torn up:
CULPEPzR c. H., June 18th, 1863.
Gen. S. Cooper, A. & l. Genl:
General: On the afternoon Of the l4th, Gen.
Rhodes took possession of Martinsburg, cap
turing several pieces of artillery, mora than
Iwo hundred prisoners, q supply of ammuni
lion and grain, Oar loss, one killed and two
Z E. LEE, General.