Summary:
Union General Robert Milroy writes Robert Schenck on May, 1863, action in the Valley. He discusses the number of troops in the Valley, the lack of Confederate resistance as far as Staunton, and equipment abandoned by Confederate General Jones.

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Maj.-Gen. SCHENCK, Baltimore, Md.:

WINCHESTER, VA.

May 10, 1863.

I can hear nothing that is going on east, west, or south. I would like much to know what is going on in Western Virginia. Elliott returned yesterday. My dispatch to him to return, in obedience to your order, reached him at New Market. There were not more than 250 troops in the Valley, and he could have gone on to Staunton without resistance. It is a pity he could not have been allowed to have gone on as far as Harrisonburg, where Jones had left all his wagons, tents, and camp equipage, which could have been taken. I did not think there was any utter madness in the movement. Thirty prisoners were brought in.

R. H. MILROY,
Maj.-Gen.

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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 25, Serial No. 40, Pages 461, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.