Official Records of the Rebellion

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No. 18.

Report of Brig. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock, U. S. Army, of reconnaissance toward Yorktown, April 6, with indorsements.

Report - Indorsement

[Indorsements.]

HEADQUARTERS NEAR FOUR CORNERS,

April 10, 1862.

Respectfully forwarded. The attention of the brigadier-general commanding the Fourth Army Corps is called to the handsome and thorough manner in which Brigadier-General Hancock, commanding the reconnaissance, conducted it.

WM. F. SMITH,

Brigadier- General, Commanding Division.

DEAR GENERAL: I send you, entirely unofficially, a copy of General Hancock’s report, thinking the information may be immediately useful, and not knowing when you may get it regularly. I think the road from Yorktown to Lee’s Mill should be guarded at the point where it leaves the road to Warwick. The road also leading to your camp from here should be guarded, and I would respectfully suggest that if the brigade of Sedgwick, now in front, is not sufficient for both, another one be ordered up. I have ordered my artillery horses to begin to pack forage remaining at Ship Point for a feed. We cannot use them to any extent here, and I have ordered the caisson horses for that purpose.

Yours, as ever,

WM. F. SMITH.

General MCCLELLAN.

Report - Indorsement