WAR DEPARTMENT,
May 24, 1862 — 9.45 a.m.
Major-General FRéMONT, Franklin:
Yesterday the enemy
attacked and drove Banks' force from Front Royal, and are threatening Strasburg
and Winchester. If you can operate so as to afford him any support do so.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 12,
Part 1 (Serial No. 15), p. 642
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