Telegram To General I. Mcdowell.
War Department, May 26, 1862. 1 P.M.
MAJOR-GENERAL McDOWELL, Falmouth, Virginia:
Despatches from Geary just received have been sent you. Should not the remainder of your forces, except sufficient to hold the point at Fredericksburg, move this way—to Mana**as Junction or Alexandria? As commander of this department, should you not be here? I ask these questions.
A. LINCOLN.