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[1] ALS, RPB. At 11 P.M. on May 28, Stanton telegraphed Lincoln's direction that Fremont should halt at Moorefield and await orders unless the enemy should be in the general direction of Romney, in which case Fremont should move upon him. Fremont telegraphed to Stanton the following day that Lincoln's order, ``will be obeyed as promptly as possible, and I am now engaged in drawing forward my force. My reconnoitering parties out last night 22 miles, to Wardensville, report Jackson's force 4 miles below Winchester; rear guard at Strasburg; head-quarters, Winchester. Reconnaissance returned to Romney at 11 last night from 15 miles out. Report Jackson, [Edward] Johnson, and Ewell at Chester, and rebel cavalry sent from Winchester toward Harper's Ferry and Martinsburg.'' (OR, I, XII, I, 647).