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Page 121 Chapter XXIV. GENERAL REPORTS.

1. From Secretary of War to Major-General McDowell, dated Washington, June 4, 1862.

2. From Colonel Haupt, aide-de-camp, to Major-General McDowell, dated Rectortown, June 4, 1862.

3. From General McDowell to Honorable E. M. Stanton, dated Headquarters Department of the Rappahannock, Front Royal, June 5, 1862.

4. From General McDowell to Honorable E. M. Stanton, dated Headquarters Department of the Rappahannock, Front Royal, June 5, 1862.

5. From E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War, to General McDowell, dated Washington, June 6, 1862.

6. From L. Thomas, Adjutant-General, to Major-General McDowell, dated Washington, June 6, 1862.

The court took a recess of thirty minutes.

7. From General McDowell to Honorable E. M. Stanton, dated Headquarters, Front Royal, Va., June 6, 1862.

8. From General McDowell to Edmund Schriver, chief of staff, dated Washington June 7, 1862.

9. From same to same, dated Washington, June 8, 1862.

9 1/2 From same to same, same date.

10. From same to same, same date.

11. From J. DeW. Cutting, captain and aide-de-camp to Colonel Schriver, dated Washington, June 8, 1862.

12. From General McDowell to Colonel Schriver, chief of staff, dated Washington June 8, 1862.

13. From same to same, same date.

14. From same to same, same date.

15. From same to same, same date.

16. From same to same, same date.

General McDowell here handed the recorder a copy of a letter (extract) from L. Thomas, Adjutant-General, to Major-General McDowell, dated War Department, Adjutant-General's Office, Washington, June 8, 1862; which was read by the record, and is appended to the proceedings of this day, and marked A.*

The record continued the reading of the dispatches sent from and received at Headquarters Department of the Rappahannock, and which are appended, as follows:

17. From Colonel E. Schriver, chief of staff, to General Shields, Luray,l dated Front Royal, June 8, 1862.

18. From E. Schriver to Major-General McDowell, dated Front Royal, June 8, 1862.

19. From E. Schriver to Major-General Shields, dated Front Royal, June 8, 1862.

20. From General McDowell to Colonel Schriver, dated Washington, June 9, 1862.

21. From same to same, same date.

22. From same to same, same date.

23. From Brigadier General George A. McCall to Major-General McDowell, dated Seven miles below Fredericksburg, June 9, 1862.

24. From Ed. Schriver, chief of staff, to Major-General Shields, dated Front Royal, June 9, 1862.

25. From same to same, same date.

26. From same to same, same date.

27. From General McDowell to Colonel Ed. Schriver, dated Washington, June 10, 1862.

28. From General Rufus King to General McDowell, dated Catlett's, June

10, 1862.

29. From General McDowell to Colonel E. Schriver, dated Washington, June 10, 1862.

30. From same to same, same date.

31. From L. Thomas, Adjutant-General, to Major-General Fremont, dated Adjutant-General's Office, Washington, June 10, 1862.

32. From General McDowell to Major-General Shields, dated Washington, June 10, 1862.

33. From R. Morris Copeland, major and assistant adjutant-general, to Colonel Ed. Schriver, dated Headquarters Department of the Shenandoah, Winchester, June 11, 1862.

34. From General Shields to General McDowell, dated Luray June 12, 1862.

35. From Major General N. P. Banks to Honorable E. M. Stanton, dated Headquarters Department of the Shenandoah, Winchester, June 12, 1862.

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*To appear in "Correspondence, etc.," Part III.

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