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Major-General Hooker: Would you like to have Capt. Treadwell Moore, now in California, to report to you for duty?
A. LINCOLN.
Annotation
[1] Tarbell (Appendix), p. 367. Hooker telegraphed on the same day that he would ``like to have Captain Moore ordered to this army.'' (DLC-RTL). On June 20, 1863, Tredwell Moore, West Point graduate in 1847, assumed quartermaster duties at Wheeling, West Virginia.