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ous to the evacuation and after the council of war had determined upon this course. Gen. Elliott testified that he thought he could have brought away the forces without an attack being made upon him by the enemy the day before Gen. Milroy moved. Gen. Elliott also testified that the dispatch from Gen. Schenck to Gen. Milroy, ordering the evacuation of Winchester, did not reach the latter previous to the council of war composed of Gen. Milroy and his brigade commanders. Movements of Mosby. The waggish Mosby, with part of his gang, on Sunday night, encamped two and a half miles from Upton's Hill, almost within range of the guns on the Washington fortifications. On Sunday afternoon he stopped a funeral procession, on its way from Lewinsville to Washington, and stole the horses attached to the hearse. He afterwards visited Falls Church, and amused himself by taking observations of our new contraband farms. Miscellaneous. A dispatch from Memphis announced that Gen.