Washington, May 25, 1862.
Intelligence
received this morning shows that General Banks has been attacked in force at
Winchester and is retreating towards Harper's Ferry. The entire forces of
Jackson, Ewell, and Johnson are operating against Harper's Ferry. The Vanderbilt
was ordered up to Aquia creek yesterday with a view to bring up some force by
the river from your command. You had better have a regiment ready to embark at
a moment's warning. The movement ordered yesterday should be pressed forward
with all speed. The President thinks your field of operations at the present is
the one he has indicated.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
General Mcdowell.
SOURCE: Report of the
Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War: In Three Parts, Part 1. – The Army
of the Potomac, p. 275
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