WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington, D. C.,
May 25, 1862.
Governor CURTIN,
Harrisburg:
Send all the troops
forward that you can immediately. Banks is completely routed. The enemy are in
large force advancing upon Harper's Ferry.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary.
(Same to Governor
Andrew, Boston, and to Governor Sprague, Providence.)
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series III, Volume
2 (Serial No. 123), p. 70
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