WASHINGTON, D. C.,
May 7, 1863
— 9.30 p.m.
Major-General HOOKER:
Richmond papers of Tuesday received at this Department are
full of accounts of the panic and destruction accomplished by Stoneman. From
the several papers, and the statement of General Stoughton, just arrived, the
following, among other facts, appear:
1. That a portion of Stoneman's force was within 2 miles of
Richmond on Monday. This is stated by the Richmond papers. General Stoughton
reports that there was not at that time a single soldier in Richmond.
2. The road was torn up at various points, and General
Stoughton says the canal broken, but the papers assert it was not broken.
3. Stoneman's force is represented to be divided into
detachments, operating in different directions, and producing great panic
everywhere in that region.
Other details are given at great length, but the above are
the principal points. The result at Chancellorsville does not seem to have
produced any panic. Gold has only risen 6 per cent. in New York, and at the
close to-day had gone down 4. The public confidence seems to remain unshaken in
the belief of your ultimate success.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
[Secretary of War.]
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume
25, Part 2 (Serial No. 40), p. 439
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