Order
Unknown to Joseph Hooker, May 2, 1863
HEADQUARTERS,
May 2, 1863.
General HOOKER:
Is the order still effective for General Gibbon to move to Banks’ Ford to-day with his whole division, or to wait until it is uncovered ?*
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in N. Virginia, W. Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Pt. 1. Summary: A Union officer urgently requests clarification from General Hooker on whether General Gibbon should immediately move his division to Banks' Ford or wait until the area is uncovered during the 1863 campaign.
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Sources
The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 25, Part 1
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