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| Major General John E. Wool |
Major General JOHN E. WOOL, Baltimore:
The captain commanding at Edwards Ferry reports the enemy in view, drawn up at Ball's Bluff. Messenger just in; in what strength does not say. John Seiber, just from Leesburg, reports that enemy have been passing through Leesburg since 12 o'clock last night up the pike toward Winchester, under command of Longstreet; that their force is a very large one. The men were worn out and hungry, and said they were going over the river into Maryland. He said he counted sixty pieces of artillery. Captain Means has just got here. He knows Seiber, and says he is perfectly reliable. Captain Bamford, of the Maryland regiment, also knows him to be a Union man and reliable.
HENRY B. BANNING,
Colonel Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer Militia.
Official Records, Series I., Vol. 19, Part 2, Page 179.
D. H. Hill's troops began crossing the Potomac on the 4th near Edwards Ferry and Ball's Bluff. At this time McClellan's troops were still in the defenses of Washington. Union forces were scattered throughout the Valley, the biggest concentration being at Harper's Ferry.
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