Summary:
D. D. Perkins reports to Union General Nathaniel P. Banks that Confederate General Thomas Jackson was seen retreating to Staunton with guns and supplies in March, 1862.

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Maj. Gen. N. P. BANKS:

WINCHESTER,

March 16, 1862.

Your message received. Authentic information received to-day of evacuation of Strasburg yesterday by Jackson's forces taking the road to Staunton, with guns and stores. Railroad bridges over North and South Branches of the Shenandoah burned Friday night. Turnpike bridges on Front Royal road over Shenandoah and North Branch also destroyed.

D. D. PERKINS,
Chief of Staff.

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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 5, Serial No. 5, Pages 760-761, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.