WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington, July 14, 1863 — 6.55 p.m.
Hon. GEORGE OPDYKE,
Mayor of New York:
SIR: Five regiments are under orders to return to New York.
The retreat of Lee having now become a rout, with his army broken and much
heavier loss of killed and wounded than was supposed, will relieve a larger
force for the restoration of order in New York.
Intelligence has just reached here of the auspicious
commencement of General Gillmore's operations against Charleston. All but one
fort on Morris Island have been captured, and that will be speedily reduced,
after which Sumter must follow.
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
27, Part 2 (Serial No. 44), p. 916
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