Thursday, September 8, 2016

Edwin M. Stanton to Major-General Nathaniel P. Banks, April 17, 1862

WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington, April 17, 1862.

To you and to the forces under your command the Department returns thanks for the brilliant and successful operations of this day.

 EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
Major-General BANKS,
Mount Jackson.

SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 15 (Serial No. 21), p. 427

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