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[1] ALS, owned by Perc S. Brown, Newark, New Jersey. McClellan's telegram of October 27 has been given in the note to Lincoln's telegram to McClellan on that date, supra. On October 28, McClellan telegraphed at 5 P.M., ``Headquarters are now at Berlin. All of Franklin's troops are over, and most of his train. General Stoneman has probably crossed at White's Ford by this time. Reynolds' corps is massed here, and will, I hope, complete his supplies of clothing to-day and early to-morrow. Franklin will move for here in the morning if nothing unusual occurs. Everything is moving as rapidly as circumstances will permit. I go to Lovettsville in a few minutes, to return to-night. We need more carbines and muskets. I shall not wait for them, but ought to be supplied at once.'' (OR, I, XIX, II, 501).
At 1:23 A.M. on October 29, he telegraphed ``We occupy Leesburgh.'' (DLC-RTL).
At 5:30 P.M. on the same day he answered Lincoln as follows: ``In reply to your dispatch of this morning I have the honor to state that the accounts . . . of the enemys position & movements are conflicting A dispatch I have just recd. . . . says . . . Generals [Ambrose P.] Hill, Jackson & [Wade] Hampton are encamped near . . . Ridgesville. Gen Pleasonton reports . . . Hill . . . at Upperville. . . . Gen Porter reports last night that . . . R E Lee is not far distant from him & that Stuart is within an hours march. . . . In the meantime I am pushing forward troops & supplies as rapidly as possible. . . .'' (Ibid.).
At 9:45 A.M. on November 1, he telegraphed that ``all the corps of this Army have crossed the Potomac except Franklins'' (ibid.), and on November 5 reported at 11:20 P.M. that Franklin ``finished crossing the Potomac at Berlin on Monday the third inst. . . . (ibid.).''