The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1862-06-19
S. G.. THURSDAY. JUNE 10, 1862.

From The Richmond Enquirer.
Sacks0n's AehAcvemen ents-Svha1
! He Did--Fnlsehoods or fhe
Northern Press.
| In his Official report Of hi. a;...,s, an,
nignt, General Banks states that he los. fif
ty Wagons.
A gentleman Of our acquaintance. who
has held irresponsible post in Jackeo,..s . Ar
my Tor twelve months, assures us that nj
least loo captured wagons wero driven ou,
from Newton; that he himself couuted 4(
lat Cedar Greek ). that thcy we're stretched
along the road between Middie,own ano
Newtown, a distance Of iye miles, thcr.
being Que ia every 80 OF q. .hunJred yards
that Banks .nrnt thirty wagons With com
mlss,ry stores below Newtown; that h,
LETT many between Winchester and b = cross
ing place on the Potomac, and thai hi,
| whole loss In wagons vas not less than 3OC
kor 400.
I The gentleman above referred 10 full;
conhrms what has been heretofore report
cd IN our paper respecting the achieve
n'cnS of Jackson's army within the las,
mouth
There IL no truth in the report that the
prisoners at Front Royal bad been re cap
;ured ny the enemy All the prisoner.
were brought of, except few of the
wounded. y company of the 18th Geor
Hia regiment fell into tic cncmyis hands
by some blunder on the part of an officer
z -out 5,oOo prisoners were secured as. the
uits o. the expedition down the Valley
Oar informant, 4 physician, estimates the
value OF the medical sores taken \. Win.
chester at from $4,000 to 800 600
he siores en'irace almost everything use
tuI snd valuable in the medical department,
Including veT: large quantity OF opium
The value of all the articles secured to the
Confedrracy i. estimated at several millions.
The loss ~ the enemy is admitted, by one
of Banks Chief Commissarics, who is now
prisoner, to be almost inealculable.
The gentleman above alluded to, states
Ola authority which he thought entitled to
credit, that General Banks put stolen ne
grocs into h's wagons and made his tired
soldiers waik-tor which, and for other al
legged bad acts, he is severely denounced by
some of the prisoners. He seems to be
disliked by his soldiers
Jackson did not 80 into Maryland, as re !,
i'''e". '-uuic oI Ills cavalry may have
crossed the river and probably did. They
burnt one or two bridges on the Baltimore
aud Ohio railroad, a1d tore up the track
tor some distance
In the period Of % days Jackson march.
.d IRON S'annton to Mcdowell, where, in
conjunction with Juhnson, he whipped Mil
roy ); thence to Franklin, 80 miles distant !:
thence to tarrisonburg, g5 miles, over
Shenandoah mountain. "a real j ordan ,oad. :"
~ so!dier described it; thence to Front
Royal via Luray, 55 miles; thence to Win.
chester, 20 ni cs; thence beyond Charles
ton, 26 miles. In his expedition he fought
four battles and number of skirmishcs.
killed aud wounded considerable number
of the enemy, took 5000 prisoners, secured
millions o. dola-s worth fon the enemy,
and chased Banks out of the Valley Of
Virginia, and across the Potomac. All
this he did in 22 days, and with loss of
but little upwards O! 100 in killed and
wounded
IN this sketch. We omit all mention of
what the telegraph is telling us that Jack
so"s Is now doing. That, We hope, will
make un another chapter OF fame for the
untiriny lero.