Summary:
Union General Robert Milroy writes General Robert Schenck concerning guerilla warfare near Winchester in May, 1863. He also reports that Confederate Cavalry General William E. Jones procured conscripts from West Virginia and armed them at Staunton.

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Maj.-Gen. SCHENCK:

WINCHESTER,

May 16, 1863

First New York were promptly sent out this morning on the reception of your first dispatch.

The bushwhackers are very annoying around here, and have fired on trains and persons several times between this and Berryville recently. It is rumored among the rebs that Jones' force are arriving back in the Valley, and that Jenkins is at Wardensville.

It is said Jones got 1,500 conscripts in Western Virginia, and armed them from Staunton.

What do you think of the policy of requiring all persons to take the oath, or move south of our lines immediately? I am very tired of living in the midst of treason.

R. H. MILROY,
Maj.-Gen., Cmdg.

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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 496, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.