Annotation
[1] ALS-F, ISLA. Major General Butterfield, Hooker's chief of staff, telegraphed Lincoln at 8:50 A.M. on May 3 that ``a battle is in progress'' (OR, I, XXV, II, 377). Stanton replied ``The President thanks you for your telegrams, and hopes you will keep him advised as rapidly as any information reaches you.'' (Ibid., p. 378). Butterfield replied to Lincoln's query at 4:40 P.M., ``General Hooker is at Chancellorsville. General Sedgwick, with 15,000 to 20,000 men, at a point 3 or 4 miles out from Fredericksburg, on the road to Chancellorsville. Lee is between. Stoneman has not been heard from. This is the situation at this hour from latest reports, 4.30 p.m.'' (Ibid.).