It was stated at
Winchester on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning that the enemy were crossing the
Potomac in heavy force at be and Point of
Roe and that their cavalry were in the neighborhood of on the
Shenandoah river.
Of the movements of our army we cannot speak.
Ending their so colours in the lower Valley, our forces off actually destroyed the
Baltimore and
Ohio, and the
Winchester and Potomac Railroads.
The
Edstarers read was tern up from the neighborhood of
Mr. John's in
Morgan county to within of
Harper's Ferry — in all, a distance of some forty miles. All the depots on the read were torn down or burned, and the fine hotel, belonging to the company, at Mar. lusburg, was committed to the flames.
The crost and stills of the road were taken up and fired, and the heavy iron laid on and bent by the heat, so as to render then dt for use. The
Winchester road was destroyed entirely from
Winchester to
Halltown, some twenty-five miles. The lowered end of this road was destroyed within right and in hearing of the enemy's on Beliv without the slightest resistance being offered.
It will require some time to repel these roads so as to make them of any service; and if the
Yankee should invade the
Valley ag the waiter, they will have to furnish other means of transportation.
