In Gen. Banks’s official report of the recent events in the valley of Virginia, he says;—”Officers, whose word I cannot doubt, have stated as the result of their own observation, that our men were fired upon from private dwellings in passing through Winchester, but I am credibly informed, and gladly believe, that the atrocities said to have been perpetrated upon our wounded soldiers by the rebels, are greatly exaggerated or entirely untrue.”
Alexandria Gazette, Alexandria, VA