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e been captured, but succeeded in making his escape. The enemy's loss was severe. We took about seven hundred prisoners, mostly belonging to Longstreet's corps. Sheridan's Operations in the Valley. The Herald gives the following as the intelligence from Sheridan as late as Friday last: General Sheridan was still at Harrisonburg. There has been no engagement between him and the main rebel army since the date of previous advices, and he has met with no reverse whatever, as Early boastingly claims. There is no organized force of rebels in his rear, but the guerrillas and bushwhackers — those peaceful citizens in the face of danger, but sneaking assassins when they can number twenty to one,"swarm along down the Valley towards Winchester, rendering communication with the front very hazardous. It was by these that Lieutenant Meigs, son of the Quartermaster-General, was killed on Tuesday last; and all persons coming through from headquarters require strong escorts. O