WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington City, D.
C., May 25, 1862.
GOVERNOR OF MAINE:
Intelligence from
various quarters leaves no doubt that the enemy in great force are advancing on
Washington. You will please organize and forward immediately all the volunteer
and militia force in your State.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
(Same to the
Governors of New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Iowa.)
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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