Joseph Hooker to Edwin M. Stanton, January 1, 1863
Jume 14, 1863. Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War: Accept my thanks for Colonel Kilpatrick’s appointment.* Everything is quiet to the front and right. The enemy has a force of cavalry (about a brigade) at Amissville, which has been stationed there for over a week. No other enemy reported this side of the mountains this morning. A PLEASONTON Brigadier-General. HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY CoRPS, June 14, 1863. (Received 8.55 p. m.) I omitted to say in a former dispatch that the negro who came in from the rebel column moving on Maryland, stated that the rebel soldiers said they would not fight, excepting on their own soil; that they would desert and give themselves up the first chance. The movement is not popular with their soldiers. A. PLEASONTON, Brigadier-General. HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE Potomac. June 14, 1863—9.30 p. m, General HANCOCK : Defer withdrawal for a few hours, and await orders. Answer. BUTTERFIELD, Major-General. * As brigadier-general U. S. Volunteers. DUMFRIES, June 14, 1863—9.25 p. m. General PLEASONTON, Warrenton Junction : Of the 15,000 infantry and artillery remaining at Culpeper, I have no satisfactory information, unless included incolumn which you reported to me as having left there Thursday [11th] last.
HOOKER,