Unknown to E. P. ScamMMon, June 14, 1863
Brig. Gen. E. P. ScamMMon, Charleston, W. Va.:
I do not hear from the Kanawha. Is all quiet along your lines ? Ewell, with a division of Lee’s army, is attacking us in the Valley, at Winchester, and trying to come down on the line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Martinsburg and Harper’s Ferry.
ROBT. C. SCHENCK, Major-General, Commanding.
Wak DEPARTMENT,
June 14, 1863—11 a. m. Major-General Drx,
Fort Monroe:
For the prompt removal of our sick and the military stores at Aquia to Alexandria, consequent upon the army movements now in progress, the Quartermaster’s Department requires temporarily every available transport. You will please forward immediately to Aquia every transport not indispensable to your safety. The case is urgent, but merely temporary, and they wille sent back to you.
EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War.
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Wark DEPARTMENT, Washington, June 14, 1863—12 m. Major-General Drx, Fort Monroe, Va.:
Lee’s army is in motion toward the Shenandoah Valley. All your available force should be concentrated to threaten Richmond, by seizing and destroying their railroad bridges over the South and North Anna Rivers, and do them all the damage possible. If you cannot accomplish this, you can at least find occupation for a large force of the enemy. There can beno serious danger of an attack on Norfolk
now. H. W. HALLECK, General-in-Chief.
Fort Monrog, Va., June 14, 18638. (Received 3.45 p. m.) Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, General-in-Chief :
Your dispatch in cipher is just received. I have a force above Diascund Bridge, moving toward Slatersville, 10 miles from the White House. Ihave a large force on the Blackwater, and I have arranged, if everything is favorable, to cross a cavalry force to-morrow over the Chowan, and destroy the railroad bridges south of the Nottoway River, on the Weldon Railroad. All the transports I[haveare ordered to Aquia Creek, and some of them have gone. If you will order them back as soon as they can be spared, I will concentrate all my force at West Point, and move toward Richmond. I have now no meansof bringing the troops at Suffolk here, and my force up the Peninsula is too small to produce much disturbance.
JOHN A. DIX, Major-General.
Wak DEPARTMENT. June 14, 1863—11.10 a. m. Major-General Coucu, Harrisburg:
Your letter of the 12th is received. This Department is gratified at the cordial support and co-operation evinced by the State officials, and I trust that, commencing with such good auspices, your work will be attended with full success. You will communicate freely by mail or telegraph, officially or personally, as you deem proper.