Summary:
Union Secretary of War Edwin Stanton writes General Irvin McDowell in May, 1862, to report news gathered from newspaper dispatches purported to come by way of Staunton.

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WAR DEPARTMENT,

Gen. McDOWELL,
Manassas:

Washington City, D. C.,

May 29, 1862.

Richmond papers containing dispatches to Gen. Lee and Governor Letcher state that Jackson and Ewell had formed a junction, and that Banks was beaten by their forces at Winchester. The dispatches purport to go by way of Staunton.

EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.

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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 51, Serial No. 108, Pages 642, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.