I have directed that those of your wounded who desire it shall be paroled and transferred within your lines, should you be willing to receive them: those in the vicinity of Chancellorsville at the United States Ford, and those on the battlefield of Salem Church, at Banks' Ford or Fredericksburg. As your wounded generally occupy the few houses in the vicinity of the late battlefield, the transportation of this army cannot be employed in conveying them to the river until my own wounded have been removed to a place of shelter. As soon as this can be accomplished I will cause such of your wounded as may desire to be paroled to be delivered at the points above indicated, upon being advised of your willingness to receive them. In the meantime they shall have such care as is given to my own.

I have the honor to inclose a copy of my letter of yesterday, in case the original may not have reached you.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
R. E. LEE,

General.

Headquarters Army of the Potomac,

Camp near Falmouth, Va., May 7, 1863

8 P. M.

General R. E. Lee,

Commanding Confederate Forces

at Fredericksburg, Va.:

I have the honor to acknowledge the re

ceipt of your two communications of May 6 and 7 this moment. If agreeable to you, I would like to send medical supplies and attendance to my wounded, and at such times as the state of the fords designated in your communication, viz., United States and Banks' fords. I will, with your consent, send parties to those fords with supplies at an early hour to-morrow. The swollen state of the Rappahannock probably preventing the crossing of any vehicles with supplies, I shall have to depend upon you for transportation for them. I will receive the wounded at the points named as soon as it can be done. I will send an officer to Chancellorsville, with your consent, to arrange the details, which, judging from your letter, with the state of the river, cannot now be determined by correspondence. Upon an intimation from you as to any deficiency in your immediate necessities of medical supplies of your own, by reason of their use for my wounded or other cause, I shall with pleasure replace them. I would be obliged for approximate information concerning the number of wounded, that a sufficient amount of supplies may be forwarded. I would be under obligations for an early reply.

Very respectfully, etc.,

JOSEPH HOOKER, Major-General Commanding.

Headquarters Army of Northern Virginia, May 11, 1863. Major-General Joseph Hooker,

Commanding Army of the Potomac. GENERAL: The Medical Director of this army advises me that your wounded will avoid inconvenience and suffering if taken directly from the different hospitals in your own ambulances, instead of being subjected to the change of conveyance incident to their removal to the river by transportation.

Should you see proper to adopt the suggestion, your ambulances will be permitted to cross the Rappahannock at the United States Ford to remove the wounded from Chancellorsville, at Banks' Ford for those at Salem Church, and at Fredericksburg for those in the vicinity.

Instructions have been issued to the commanding officers at the points above mentioned to give free passage to your trains, and each of them, upon crossing the river, will be conducted to and placed under directions of your medical officers left in charge of your wounded at the hospital to which it is destined.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant, R. E. LEE,

General.

Headquarters Army of the Potomac, Camp near Falmouth, Va., May 14, 1863. General R. E. Lee,

Commanding Army of Northern Virginia: On learning yesterday afternoon, through my medical officers, who have returned from your lines, that permission would be given to throw a bridge across the river at United States Ford, to enable our ambulance trains to proceed to the hospitals in the vicinity of Chancellorsville for our wounded, I at once gave directions to have the bridge laid at an early hour this morning. I regret that I was not sooner informed that this facility would be afforded. The bridge will be used for no other purpose than bringing away the wounded, and, when this has been accomplished, will be immediately removed and returned to the place from which it was Very respectfully,

taken.

JOSEPH HOOKER,
Major-General Commanding.

Forces Under General Hooker in Chancellorsville Campaign.

Abstract from Tri-monthly Return of the Army of the Potomac, Major-General Joseph Hooker, U. S. Army, Commanding, for April 30, 1863.

Aggregate officers and men present for duty (only those who are actually available for the line of battle):

General Summary of Casualties in the Union Forces during the Chancellorsville (Va.) Campaign, April 27-May 11, 1863.