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[1] ALS, RPB. At 7:30 A.M. Wool had telegraphed Halleck, ``Colonel [George R.] Dennis, at Gettysburg, communicates the following . . . from undoubted authority: `Brig. Gen. B. [T.] Johnson, with 5,000 infantry, came into Frederick about 12 m. yesterday. . . . Jackson followed with 25,000 at 2.30 p.m. . . . Johnson's brigade encamped a mile north of the city. . . . He said he would be there only one day; then for Pennsylvania or Baltimore. General Bragg was advancing up the Shenandoah Valley for Pennsylvania, with 40,000 troops. . . .''' (OR, I, XIX, II, 205). He replied to Lincoln's telegram at 8:05 P.M., ``Your dispatch rec'd Genl Hill is menacing Harper's Ferry but with what force is not stated I think Harpers Ferry will be defended. Bragg is reported to be advancing through Valley of Shenandoah with forty thousand. . . . More than thirty thousand . . . were reported in & near Frederick yesterday with three . . . Batteries & more coming. Number of Cavalry not started [sic] & not included in above Estimate Rebels proclaimed that [sic] were going Either to Philadelphia or Baltimore All my information is second hand. . . .'' (DLC-RTL).