Annotation
[1] Thirty-eighth Congress, Second Session, Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War (1865), I, 266. Hooker's telegram from Fairfax Station, June 15, received at 1:15 A.M. on the 16th, is as follows: ``I have received your despatch of this evening. The army of the Potomac is in this vicinity, excepting the 2nd and 6th corps, and, as they are marching in rear of all the trains, they will not be up before some time during to-morrow. Perhaps the 2d corps will not be here until some time to-morrow night. The 1st and 11th corps were first to arrive on this line, but I have not yet learned whether they have drawn their supplies in readiness to march to-morrow morning or not. As soon as they are provided, they, as well as the others, will be put en route. I have been informed that the enemy nowhere crossed the Rappahannock on our withdrawal from it. But General Hill's troops moved up the river in the direction of Culpeper this morning, for the purpose of, I conclude, re-enforcing Longstreet and Ewell, wherever they may be. I request that I may be informed what troops there are at Harper's Ferry, and who is in command of them, and also who is in command in this district.'' (Ibid., p. 265).
Hooker's later telegram, received at 8:35 A.M., is as follows: ``It appears to me . . . that nearly all of the cavalry of the army of the Potomac should at once be sent into Maryland by the most direct route. General Stahl has an abundance to perform all cavalry duty that will be required south of the Potomac. I merely make this suggestion. If any considerable body of the enemy's infantry should be thrown across the Potomac, they will probably take the direction of his advance pickets, and, in that event, it seems to me that a heavy column of ours should be thrown as speedily as possible to cross the river at Harper's Ferry, while another should be thrown over the most direct line