Henry W. Slocum to Joseph Hooker, December 8, 1862

GENERAL:

Your dispatch of this date just received. On the 6th instant I telegraphed you as follows: General Geary has just returned from a reconnaissance. He visited Berryville, Winchester, and Bunker Hill. He captured 125 prisoners, including 4 officers, killed 4 and wounded 20 of the enemy. We lost no menor property. Jackson’s command passed through Thornton’s Gap about the Ist instant, and moved toward Fredericksburg. Both the Hills have also moved toward the same place. General Geary has information, that he thinks reliable, that the command of Jackson and both the Hills does not exceed 35,000. { have always telegraphed you the result of a reconnaissance immediately on receiving the report of the officer in command. All quiet to-day.

H. W. SLOCUM,