Summary:
In this March, 1862, letter, Union General Nathaniel P. Banks reports to General Williams on the disposition of Confederate forces in the Valley. He mentions Jackson's movement to Staunton and probable departure for Richmond.

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Gen. S. WILLIAMS,
Fairfax Seminary:

STRASBURG,

March 26, 1862

Your dispatch in cipher received. Thanks for the news. The best informed Southern men say Jackson is moving to Staunton en route for Richmond; that we shall not see him again here. Nevertheless his rear guard remains near Woodstock with some force. Letter received here from a resident of this town in rebel army says they are moving from Gordonsville and forming line upon Fredericksburg and Richmond. The substance of our information is that the rebels are moving back from all their present positions. Col. Bryan, Twelfth Massachusetts, counted 273 dead rebels on the battle-field at Winchester to-day.

N. P. BANKS,
Maj.-Gen., Commanding.

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Bibliographic Information : Letter Reproduced from The War of The Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 1, Volume 12, Serial No. 18, Pages 20-21, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.