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and that the emergency in Pennsylvania had 

 passed away. Thus, on this ground, the Gov- 

 ernor of New Jersey considered it safe to 

 recall the troops from Pennsylvania. Mean- 

 while, Gen. Lee was gathering the fruits of 

 the surrender of "Winchester, and preparing to 

 move his army across the Potomac. The de- 

 monstrations of Gen. Ewell in Pennsylvania 

 having failed to cause the army of Gen. Hooker 

 to leave Virginia, and as it did not seem dis- 

 posed to advance on Gen. Longstreet, the latter 

 was withdrawn to the west side of the Shenan- 

 doah. At -the same time the progress of Gen. 

 Ewell rendered it necessary that Gen. Lee should 

 be within supporting distance. As soon there- 

 fore as the fords of the Potomac between Har- 

 per's Ferry and Williamsport were well seized 

 by his advance, his main body began to move. 

 This was as early as Sunday, the 21st the day 

 of Gen. Pleasanton's cavalry skirmish. On that 

 day, Gen. Lee issued the following order to 

 his army : 



HEADQUARTERS ARMY NORTHERN VIRGINIA, ? 

 June 21st, 1863. $ 



While in the enemy's country, the following regu- 

 lations for procuring supplies will be strictly observed, 

 and any violation of them promptly and rigorously 

 punished : 



I. No private property shall be injured or destroyed 

 by any person belonging to or connected with the 

 army, or taken, except by the officers hereinafter des- 

 ignated. 



II. The chiefs of the commissary, quartermaster, 

 ordnance, and medical departments of the army will 

 make requisitions upon the local authorities or inhab- 

 itants for the necessary supplies for their respective 

 departments, designating the places and times of de- 

 livery. All persons complying with such requisitions 

 will be paid the market price for the articles furnish- 

 ed, if they so desire, and the officer making such pay- 

 ment shall take duplicate receipts for the same, spe- 

 cifying the name of the person paid, and the quantity, 

 kind, and price of the property, one of which receipts 

 shall be at once forwarded to the chief of the depart- 

 ment to which such officer is attached. 



III. Should thejfiuthorities r inhabitants neglect or 

 refuse to comply with such requisitions, the supplies 

 required shall be taken from the nearest inhabitants 

 so refusing, by the order and under the direction of 

 the respective chiefs of the departments named. 



IV. When any command is detached from the main 

 body, the chiefs of the several departments of such 

 command will procure supplies for the same, and such 

 other stores as they may be ordered to provide, in the 

 manner and subject to the provisions herein prescribed, 

 reporting their action to the heads of their respective 

 departments, to which they will forward duplicates of 

 all vouchers given or received. 



V. All persons who shall decline to receive pay- 

 ment for property furnished on requisitions, and all 

 from whom it shall be necessary to take stores or sup- 

 plies, shall be furnished by the officer receiving or 

 taking the same with a receipt specifying the kind and 

 quantity of the property received or taken, as the case 

 may be, the name of the person from whom it was re- 

 ceived or taken, the command for the use of which 

 it was received or taken, and the market price. A du- 

 plicate of said receipt shall be at once forwarded to 

 the chief of the department to which the officer by 

 whom it is executed is attached. 



VI. If any person shall remove or conceal property 

 necessary for the use of the army, or attempt to do so, 

 the officers hereinbefore mentioned will cause such 

 property, and all other property belonging to such 

 person, that may be required by the army, to oe seized, 



and the officer seizing the same will forthwith report 

 to the chief of his department the kind, quantity, and 

 market price of the property so seized, and the name 

 of the owner. 



By command of Gen. R. E. LEE. 



R. H. CHILTON, A. A. and I. G., 

 Lieut.-Gen. R. S. EWELL, Com'g 2d Army Corps. 



The following correspondence, which was in- 

 tercepted by Gen. Hooker, shows the general 

 plans of Gen. Lee at this time : 



ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, RICHMOND, ) 

 June 28th, 1863. J 



Gen. R. E. Lee, commanding Army Northern Virginia, 

 Winchester, Va. : 



GENERAL : While with the President last evening, I 

 received your letter of the 23d instant. After reading 

 it to the President, he was embarrassed to understand 

 that part of it which refers to the plan of assembling 

 an army at Culpepper Court House, under Gen. Beau- 

 regard. This is tne first intimation that he has had 

 that such a plan was ever in contemplation, and, taking 

 all things into consideration, he cannot see how it can 

 by any possibility be carried into effect. 



You will doubtless learn, before this reaches you, 

 that the enemy has again assembled in force on the 

 peninsula, estimated between 20,000 and 30,000 men, 

 from 6,000 to 10,000 of whom are reported to be in the 

 vicinity of White House, and the remainder at York- 

 town. It is impossible to say whether the estimated 

 number is correct, as the several accounts vary and are 

 not deemed altogether trustworthy ; but the estimate, 

 making due allowance for errors, is quite near enough 

 to satisfy the most incredulous that he is in this vicin- 

 ity in sufficient force, in cavalry, artillery, and infan- 

 try, to do much harm, whether his purpose be to make 

 a demonstration on Richmond, or to confine himself to 

 raids in breaking your communications and devasta- 

 ting the country. His efforts in the last case may prove 

 more successful than in the first, if we may judge by 

 what took place at Hanover only two days ago, when 

 about 1,000 or 1,200 of his cavalry suddenly appeared 

 there, and did some execution in breaking the rail- 

 road and burning^ a bridge, some buildings, public 

 stores, &c. It is important that this raid took place 

 only about two days after Gen. Corse's brigade had left 

 there for Gordonsville. Had it remained at Hanover 

 Junction, it is reasonable to suppose that most of the 

 enemy's cavalry would have been either destroyed or 

 captured, and the property saved from injury. Every 

 effort is being made here to be prepared for the enemy 

 at all points, but we must look chiefly to the protec- 

 tion of the capital. In doing this we may be obliged 

 to hazard some other points. You can easily estimate 

 our strength, and I suggest for your consideration 

 whether, in this state ot things, you might not be 

 able to spare a portion of your force to protect your 

 line of communication against attempted raids by the 

 enemy. 



Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



S. COOPER, Adjutant-General. 



LETTER FROM JEFF. DAVIS. 



RICHMOND, June 2Sth, 1863. 



GENERAL : Yours of the 23d I received this evening, 

 I hasten to reply to the point presented in relation to 

 the forces on the coasts of South Carolina and Georgia. 

 The hopes indulged as to our operations at the time 

 which would intervene between the discharge of the 

 enemy's trained troops and the substitution of them by 

 others have been disappointed by the very error against 

 which it was sought by warning to guard. Grant 

 reached the river, got reinforcements, made intrench- 

 ments, and Gen. Johnston continues to call for reon- 

 forcements, though his first requisition was more than 

 filled by withdrawing troops from Gens. Beauregard 

 and Bragg. Gen. Bragg is threatened with attack, 

 has fallen back to his intrenched position at Tullahoma, 

 and called on Buckner for aid. 



Gen. Beauregard says that no troops have been with- 



