To Joseph Hooker1Jump to section
Major Genl. Hooker June 9, 1863
I am told there are fifty incendiary shells here at the Arsenal made to fit the 100 pdr. Parrott Gun now with you. If this be true, would you like to have the Shells sent to you? A LINCOLN
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[1] ALS, IHi. No answer from Hooker has been located, but Oliver S. Halsted telegraphed Lincoln on June 10, ``I am with the Genl. forty nine shells are at the Arsenal---the Genl. has telegraphed an answer to your dispatch requesting that they be sent down.'' (DLC-RTL).
Halsted was probably Oliver S. Halsted, Jr., a lawyer of Newark, New Jersey, who was promoting the use of incendiary shells invented by his friend Alfred Berney. Letters in the Lincoln Papers from Halsted are signed ``Jr.'' See further Lincoln's telegram to Hooker, June 12, infra.