WASHINGTON, May 28,
1862.
I am very glad of General F. J. Porter's victory. Still, if
it was a total rout of the enemy, I am puzzled to know why the Richmond and
Fredericksburg Railroad was not seized again, as you say you have all the
railroads but the Richmond and Fredericksburg. I am puzzled to see how, lacking
that, you can have any, except the scrap from Richmond to West Point. The scrap
of the Virginia Central from Richmond to Hanover Junction without more is
simply nothing. That the whole of the enemy is concentrating on Richmond I
think cannot be certainly known to you or me. Saxton, at Harper's Ferry,
informs us that large forces, supposed to be Jackson's and Ewell's, forced his
advance from Charlestown to-day. General King telegraphs us from Fredericksburg
that contrabands give certain information that 15,000 left Hanover Junction
Monday morning to re-enforce Jackson. I am painfully impressed with the
importance of the struggle before you, and shall aid you all I can consistently
with my view of due regard to all points.
A. LINCOLN.
Major-General McCLELLAN.
SOURCES: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume
11, Part 1 (Serial No. 12), p. 36
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