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[1] ALS, DNA WR RG 107, Presidential Telegrams, I, 117. No reply to Lincoln has been discovered, but at 11 A. M. Hunter telegraphed Halleck: ``General [Horatio G.] Wright reports his corps so much fatigued and scattered as to be unable to move this morning. The whole command is now encamped at Halltown, but my information is so unreliable and contradictory that I am at a loss to know in which direction to pursue the enemy. If I go toward the fords over which he has passed to cut off his retreat by the Valley, he turns to the right, pushes toward Baltimore and Washington, and escapes by the lower fords of the Potomac. If I push on toward Frederick and Gettysburg, I give him a chance to turn down the Valley unmolested. Please with your superior chances for information . . . direct me what is best to be done. . . .'' (OR, I, XXXVII, II, 511-12).