WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington, D.C.,
June 18, 1862.
Major-General McCLELLAN:
Yours of to-day making it probable that Jackson has been
re-enforced by about 10,000 from Richmond is corroborated by a dispatch from
General King at Fredericksburg, saying a Frenchman just arrived from Richmond
by way of Gordonsville met 10,000 to 15,000 passing through the latter place to
join Jackson.
If this is true it is as good as a re-enforcement to you of
an equal force. I could better dispose of things if I could know about what day
you can attack Richmond, and would be glad to be informed, if you think you can
inform me with safety.
A. LINCOLN.
SOURCES: 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. 232-3
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