WINCHESTER, March 12. – Despatches say Gen. Jackson’s force
yesterday consisted of Loring’s brigade and several fine batteries and 300 of
Ashley’s cavalry, 4,000 in all. They commenced
evacuating the place about sunset last night.
The cavalry were the last to leave.
They departed just before we entered the town.
It is represented that there is a large secession force at
Strasburg, and that they intend to make a stand there. Owing to the state of affairs at Manassas, it
is believed that Gen. Jackson will make his way up the Shenandoah valley to the
Virginia Central Railroad and thence to Richmond.
Prominent secessionists here say that the rebel forces will
make a stand at Gordonsville and that the place is well fortified.
Several prisoners and a small amount of ammunition are all
the seizures we have made.
WINCHESTER, VA., March 12. – Gen. Jackson’s forces left here
last night. The forces of Generals Hamilton
and Williams are just entering the town.
There was a strong fort one mile out which was evacuated by Gen. Jackson
last night. As the regiments pass along
they are cheered and greeted by the citizens and responded to by our officers
and men. The other column of General
Banks’ division, which will approach the Berryville route, have not yet
arrived. Not a shot has been fired.
Yesterday the rebels arrested eighty of the most prominent
unionists and sent them to Richmond.
Coffee sells at seventy-five cents and one dollar per pound;
sugar twenty-five to thirty-seven cents; calico fifty cents. Other articles are more abundant.
It is represented by the resident friends of the Union that
two-thirds of the population of the town and country are loyal, but have been
compelled to succumb to the secession pressure so far as the expression of
opinion is concerned.
There have been no Richmond papers received here for a week
and the citizens are entirely ignorant of the thrilling events which have
transpired within that period.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 15, 1862, p. 3
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