President Lincoln received a telegram informing him that General Patterson's men would begin crossing the Potomac River during the night tonight -- the first major inv asion of the war of Union soldiers entering onto the ground of the enemy.
Patterson's orders were to push the enemy out of Martinsburg, Virginia and then march his men further to Winchester, Virginia.
The President was excited to the point of telling me that he would wait up all night to read the dispatches at the telegraph office to track the action of Patterson and his men.
W. H. Lamon
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