Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-09-09
Correspondence Of the New York World
WASHINGTON. Sep. 4.
GRAPH LiNE-How HE SUPPLIES HIS AL

have to-day some very late and very import
news from the Shenandoah Valley and the
Upper Potomac Ii comes direct from persons
on the spot as late az the ID inst. whose oppor
tunities for asceEtaining the truth are we'll known
to Gen Sheridan himself.
The attempt TO drive Gen Early from the
valley. or even from the immediate vicinity of
the Potomac, which was so signally bafied by
the rebal General the 18th ult, has not since
been repeated. and will not be repeated at pres
ent Whether the Confederate forces under
Early amount to % 600 or 40 900 men. two facts
in regard TO them are clear: LIST. They are so
strong tba, General Sheridsn's whole army was
unable TO dslodge them from the position chosen
by Gen Early on the 29Ih ult. and % That
quite n large number OF Early S officers and men,
whose families reside in various PARTS of North
ern Virginia, and in MARYLAND. have received
brief furlougs to visit their families, and are now
engaged in that agreeable recreation They are
to report, on the expiration OF their furloughs
to the officer granting the furloughs, at Win
chester The furloughs run from ten TO twenty
days
The statements made by these furloughed in
divduals have been repeated to a great many
people They differ in respects. but not
materially. and on no material point. They all
agree in saying that General Lees orders to Gen.
Early are hold the valley Mt all hazards, and
until the Confederate army moves nOrthward
and that General Earys force is sufficient to en-
able him TO do They say that during the
last two weeks Early has been reinforced by the
arrival of small bodies of men every day: some
times brigade few regiments OF veteran
troops from Lees army; sometimes attachments
of new recruits for the old regiments The lat
ter were always Immediately assigned to those
regiments whose ranks needed them most This
hos alua haeD no Of herr ar
mics, and its effects have invariably been found
beneficial. The new men very soon become eff
ticient soldiers These statements are corrobo
rated in every particular by all the officers and
men who were taken prisoners in the actions of
the 2Sth and 29th ult
There is a line of telegraph in working order
and in full operation from Richmond to S aun
ton, and from the latter place to Strasburg The
line from Strssburg to Winchester was destroyed
some time ago. but is now being put up again.
If it is not interrupted by our troops Gen. Early
will have in few DAYS direct telepraphic com
munication with Richmond.
Last week Gen. Ftz Hugh Lees cavalry divi-
sion was re-enforced by full regiment of five
hundred men. The men are all veteran cavalry
soldiers from Lees army. The horses are all
fresh animals recently obtained from the north
west counties in Virginia. They are pronounced
the best horses in Early's army. but thev are en-
tirely unframed for cavalry service. With such
riders as they have, however, it will not take
long to make them efficient The men are
clothed in new uniforms. and the arms and
couternents, sneludiDg saddles and carbines, are
also new
Gen Early's headquarters are at Bunker Hill,
where he has some lines of strong intrenchments.
He is constantly sending off teegraphic messages
TO Gen. Lee by messengers on horseback to
Strasburg. whence they are transmitted by tele-
graph. He receives frequent teegraphic dis
patches from Richmond in the same way. Besides
these. he sends couriers, with dispatches,
horseback to Culpepper, and thence to Richmond
BY railroad. His return dispatches and the army
mail are brought to Bunker Hill in the same
way.
Gen. Early was much grati6ed with the result
of the actions of the 2Sth and 29th ult., on the
Opequan river, and has issued an order thanking
his men for their gallantry and good conduct on
those occasions. His staff officers say that he
would desire nothing better than TO have Gen.
Sheridan attack him every day, from now till
Christmas. He has all the movements of Gen.
SheridaD's forces very closely watched. and
keeps his accommodating forces busy in all direc-
tions particularly toward the Potomac river,
toward Hancock, and in the neighborhood OF
Leesburg.
Foraging parties are frequently sent westward
anu SOutuWarO, some OF tnem Dave gone as lar
as Gauley River They bring back provisions
and forage in abundance, and fabulous accounts
of the richness and productiveness of the country.
The barns said to be full OF unthreshed wheat,
the pastures Astounding with fat cattle. the
orchards bending under their load of fruit
If Early's army was four times as large as it is.
il would be at no loss for subsistence. All that
is taken by these forsgDg parties is paid for
1t is said, also that Early's orders enioin him
to be especially vigilant in seeing that no meas
ures are taken toward the reconstruction of that
part of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad which
has been destroyed between Harpers Ferry and
Martnsburg. The Confederate Govern ment, it
is said, are determined that this road shall never
be used as a through route again.
MALCoMB