WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington, June 14,
1863 – 12 m.
Major-General Dix,
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 be no serious danger
of an attack on Norfolk now.
H. W. HALLECK,
General-in-Chief.
SOURCES: Morgan Dix, Memoirs of John Adams Dix,
Volume 2, p. 57; The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 27,
Part 3 (Serial No. 45), p. 111
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