Of the guerrilla attack upon the party of teamsters of Gen. Bank’s division, we have learned further particulars. Twenty six wagons were out on a foraging expedition without sufficient guard; and having met but little success in the object of their movements and no signs of the foe, they imprudently wandered beyond the Shenandoah in the mountains, and were cut off from their camp by the sudden rising of several intermediate streams. While in this dilemma they were attacked by a large guerrilla force, who killed several teamsters and horses, and destroyed sixteen of the wagons[,] the others escaping.
So soon as the intelligence of the mishap reached Gen. Fremont he ordered General Milroy to send a force into the district where the raid was committed to hold the people thereof responsible, to take as many wagons and as much forage as would make up the loss, and to scour the region for the depredators. If any of the latter should be taken a summary disposition will be made of them undoubtedly. A continued series of prompt and thorough acts of retribution for such depredations should be executed – and the guerrilla operations which so harass our troops and abuse and intimidate the loyal people of the country will cease. – {Wheeling, Va., Intelligencer.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 3
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