The Daily Dispatch: June 9, 1862., [Electronic resource]

Marvellous.

In one of Banks's many dispatch as respecting his little mishap in the Valley he says that he had but two brigades of less that 4 00） all told

This little force, according to his showing had about five hundred wagons, a of which, except fifty, were safely carried off into land.

Now, this is a most marvellous story — What would an army of 4,000 men want with 500 wagons, unless every man wanted transportation for himself. If McClellan is as woll provided with wagons as Banks was assuming that he has 100,000 men, he should have 12,500 wagon!. We do not doubt that Banks had 500 wagons, for he was well fixed with every needful appliance, but we know that he lost more than fifty.

We have seen a gentleman just from the Valley, who counted amongst Jackson's booty far more than this in one train, whilst he saw, piled up in the road, in two places, large numbers of wagons fully equal to the number Banks affirms to have lost, that the Yankees had attempted to burn.

The truth is, they have formed the habit of lying about all their operations, and if it had not been such a patent and palpable fact that Banks was whipped in all of his encounters with Jackson, and finally driven from the Valley, the Yankee officers and press would have claimed a succession of brilliant victories.