The Western Democrat

GEN. JACKSON'S OPERATIONS

We have been shown (says the Richmond Enquirer) a private letter from an officer in the First Brigade of the Army of the Shenandoah, from which, though not intended for publication, we have made, by consent, the following extracts. It gives a happily condensed account of Jackson's operations in the Valley:

"Haven't our operations since the 1st of May been wonderful? We have marched nearly seven hundred miles in forced marches, with little sleep and little food, and no baggage save cooking utensils and what the men carried; have met the enemy in thirteen combats, besides innumerable skirmishes, six of the thirteen being severe battles, in which we badly whipped him, and in no instance, above a slight skirmish have we failed to drive him back, and generally to run him. We have taken, at a low estimate, $3,000,000 worth of property, including arms, &c., and 3,000 prisoners. At every point the enemy has been foiled, deceived, puzzled, out-generaled, and routed. His plans have been utterly ruined, and all his traps have failed. I scarcely know which to admire most, Gen. Jackson's sudden and overwhelming attack upon Banks, demoralizing his army and driving him to the Potomac, or his march up the Valley again, threatened in front, rear, and on both flanks; foiling the enemy at every step, occasionally stopping to give him a hard slap with his open hand, as he trod too closely our skirts: and finally waiting until apparently surrounded by Fremont and Shields, then whipping Fremont on Sunday, and utterly routing Shields on Monday, while F. stood looking on with a burnt bridge between him and us, as we gave it to Shields, or rather to Tyler, who commanded."