The following article is transcribed from the New York Times, dated June 16, 1862:

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SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE TIMES. WASHINGTON, Sunday, June 15.

 

          The following message, from the special correspondent of the TIMES at Front Royal, has just reached me: FRONT ROYAL, Saturday, June 14. Prisoners captured at Port Republic, who were in the Monday's fight with SHIELDS, say it was the hottest affair for its size that has occurred during the war. A Louisiana Tiger told me it was the first time his regiment ever gave way before Yankees, but that in this instance they, with the other advanced rebel regiments, were driven steadily back until the whole [???] was brought up, and SHIELDS' little command fairly crushed by overwhelming numbers. The wounded in both fights, SHIELDS' and FREMONT'S, are being sent to the hospitals at Washington. One train loaded with wounded has just gone out, and another will soon follow. A Southern surgeon tells me that the wounds our arms inflict are much more severe than those they inflict upon us, and that the proportion of amputations is fearful indeed. For some time the Southern soldiers insisted that we used poisoned projectiles, and were only satisfied to the contrary by a chemical analysis of the lead composing the bullets. Many refuse even this evidence, and maintain that they are poisoned. The death of ASHBY is a bitter blow to the Secessionists, and the majority of them refuse to credit it, terming the fact a "Yankee Invention." It was ASHBY who commanded the real guard during JACKSON'S late retreat from Winchester and the Valley, and the advance in the movement on it. At Front Royal a report is rife that LONGSTREET is at Brownsville, only ten miles distant, and the utmost vigilance is maintained to guard against attack. But there is probably no ground for the rumor, as all evidence goes to establish the probability that LONGSTREET joined JACKSON at Port Republic