Statement of a Scout

WHEELING, April 29.

A trusty scout, sent out by Gen. Milroy, went within nine miles of Stanton, and found there a rebel cavalry company, and learned that Johnston, shortly after leaving the Shenandoah, was ordered back, but replied that its occupation by 10,000 Yankees made it impossible. He was then ordered to join Jackson east of the Blue Ridge, which was being rapidly done.

The same scout reports the loss of a foraging party twelve miles from McDowell. While water bound, it was attacked by a guerilla band, the wagons and horses destroyed, some men badly wounded and some killed. This is a bad loss in view of the present transportation facilities.

Harper and Bennett, two notorious guerillas, have been sent to Wheeling.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, April 30, 1862, p. 1