WAR DEPARTMENT,
May 1, 1862.
Major-General BANKS:
The President directs that you fall back with the force under your
immediate command to Strasburg, or such other point near there as will be
convenient for supplies and enable you to hold the passage along the valley of
the Shenandoah. General Shields will receive orders within a day or two to pass
with his division into the Department of the Rappahannock.
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 3 (Serial No. 18), p. 122
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