by John Beauchamp Jones
June 19TH.—Gen. Lee telegraphs from Culpepper Court House yesterday, that Gen. Rhodes captured Martinsburg, Sunday, 14th inst., taking several guns, over 200 prisoners, and a supply of ammunition and grain. Our loss was only one killed and two wounded.
The Secretary of the Navy is in bad odor for ordering out the Atlanta at Savannah to fight two Federal steamers, to whom she surrendered.
There is nothing more definite or authentic from Winchester, except that we certainly captured Milroy’s army of not less than 6000 men.
To-day the government issued musket and ball-cartridges (forty to each) to the volunteer companies raised in the departments for home defense. If this does not signify apprehension of an immediate attack, it proves at all events that Lee’s army is not to be around the city as it was a year ago—and that signifies his purpose to advance.
