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[1] OR, I, XXVII, I, 58. The circumstances surrounding this telegram are not entirely clear. At 6 P.M. on June 26, Hooker telegraphed Major Thomas T. Eckert of the telegraph office, ``Dispatch received. My compliments to the President, and inform him that I had not that honor.'' (Ibid). A footnote in the source comments that the despatch referred to could not be found. At 8 P.M.
the same evening, Hooker telegraphed LINCOLN, ``You need not believe any more than you choose of what is published in the Associated Press dispatches concerning this army tomorrow. Was it from the newspapers that you received a report, or an idea, that I was in Washington last night?'' (Ibid.).