HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT
OF THE POTOMAC,
June 27, 1862.
Flag-Officer GOLDSBOROUGH:
I desire you will send some light-draught gunboats at once
up the Chickahominy as far as possible, and also that you will forthwith
instruct the gunboats in the James River to cover the left flank of this army.
I should be glad to have the gunboats proceed as far up the river as may be
practicable, and hope they may get up as far as the vicinity of New Market.
We have met a severe repulse to-day, having been attacked by
greatly superior numbers, and I am obliged to fall back between the
Chickahominy and the James River. I look to you to give me all the support you
can in covering my flank, as well as in giving protection to my supplies afloat
in James River.
GEO. B. McCLELLAN,
Major-general,
Commanding.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume
11, Part 3 (Serial No. 14), p. 267
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