To Joseph Hooker1Jump to section
Major-General Hooker: Do you consider it possible that 15,000 of Ewell's men can now be at Winchester? A. LINCOLN.
Annotation
[1] OR, I, XXVII, I, 38. General Alfred Pleasonton reported to Stanton on June 14, received 6:05 P.M., that a ``negro states that he left Gaines' Cross-Roads last night, and the enemy's column passed there for Harper's Ferry on Friday morning [12th]. . . . Saw [Richard] Ewell . . . also [James] Longstreet and [Jubal A.] Early. . . . I believe this man's report.'' (OR, I, XXVII, III, 101). Hooker's reply to Lincoln of 7:10 P.M. merely referred to Pleasonton's report (OR, I, XXVII, I, 39).