WASHINGTON, April 22.
The following has been received at the War Department:
NEWMARKET, Va., April 22.
To Hon. Edwin M. Stanton:
Our advance is near Harrisburg. We have troops across the mountains protecting the bridges on the Shenandoah at Olney and on the Murray road. The inhabitants of that vicinity were greatly alarmed at first on account of the reports circulated by the rebels as to the treatment they would receive from us, but in the course of a few hours they became quite reconciled to our presence. There is a good road to Warrenton, 25 miles, and a turnpike to Culpepper Court House, the same distance.
In several recent sharp skirmishes with the enemy we lost three men. Jackson had abandoned the valley of Virginia permanently, and is en route for Jordonsville by the way of the mountains. Every day brings its prisoners and numerous deserters from the rebels.
(Signed)
N. P. Banks,
Major General Commanding.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, April 24, 1862, p. 2
The following has been received at the War Department:
NEWMARKET, Va., April 22.
To Hon. Edwin M. Stanton:
Our advance is near Harrisburg. We have troops across the mountains protecting the bridges on the Shenandoah at Olney and on the Murray road. The inhabitants of that vicinity were greatly alarmed at first on account of the reports circulated by the rebels as to the treatment they would receive from us, but in the course of a few hours they became quite reconciled to our presence. There is a good road to Warrenton, 25 miles, and a turnpike to Culpepper Court House, the same distance.
In several recent sharp skirmishes with the enemy we lost three men. Jackson had abandoned the valley of Virginia permanently, and is en route for Jordonsville by the way of the mountains. Every day brings its prisoners and numerous deserters from the rebels.
(Signed)
N. P. Banks,
Major General Commanding.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, April 24, 1862, p. 2
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