From Winchester

WASHINGTON, March 27.

Gen. Shields telegraphs that our victory at Winchester has been more fatal to the rebels than at first supposed.  A Union prisoner who escaped from Mt. Jackson Prison, just arrived, saw eight wagons loaded with dead and wounded enter Mt. Jackson on Monday at 10 P. M., 44 miles from the battlefield, in 30 hours.  The rebels admitted that they had 11,000 in the field; also that they lost between 1,000 and 1,500 min killed and wounded.  We are finding their graves at some distance from each side of the road.  The blow has struck terror to the heart of the Shenandoah Valley.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF POTOMAS,

March 27.

To Brig. Gen. Shields:

The commanding General congratulates you and the troops under your command on the victory gained by your own energy and activity and their bravery on the 23d.  He is pained to learn that the wound you received in the skirmish the day previous, is more serious than first expected.  By command of Maj. Gen. Geo. B. McClellan.

(Signed,)

A. S. WILLIAMS, A. A. G.

Intelligence from Strasburg states that no movement has taken place in that vicinity.

Gen. Jackson, with the remnant of his army, is supposed to be near Woodstock.

WINCHESTER, March 28.

The latest intelligence we have from Strasburg is dated yesterday.  Ashby’s rebel forces with four guns appeared near Strasburg, and threw several shells into our camp, killing one of our men and wounding another.  His position was such as to prevent us from cutting him off.

Gen. Banks reconnoitered all the positions of the enemy for several miles around, and returned to camp after dark.

The rebel, Gen. Jackson is believed to be very quiet before Edinburg.  Most of the population of Strasburg have been Unionists through the war, and are so still.

The agent of the Manassas R. R. and station master, who have been hiding for weeks in the mountains to avoid Gen. Jackson’s forces have returned and given valuable information to Gen. Banks.  Many of the inhabitants have been residing for weeks in the mountains.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, March 29, 1862, p. 1