(Special to Post.)
WASHINGTON, May 29 – The Intelligencer of this city states that Gen. McDowell is now at Manassas Junction with a sufficient force to aid in the capture of Gen. Jackson’s rebel army now in the Shenandoah Valley.
A gentleman just from Leesburgh reports that the rebels in that place had a grand jubilee on Sunday and Monday over the retreat of General Banks.
It is stated that medicines purchased in Baltimore for the rebels by their agents were got down to Jackson without capture.
The Military Committee of the House will report in favor of enlarging the locks of the Erie and Oswego Canal for military purposes. The estimate cost of the enlargement is about 35,000,000
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 31, 1862, p. 3
