Sunday, April 5, 1863.Aquia Creek, VA, Falmouth, VA,
and General Hooker's Headquarters. | President and party of six arrive at mouth of Aquia Creek Sunday morning. Board special train at 10 A.M. and reach General Hooker's headquarters at Falmouth about noon. Evening Star (Washington, DC), 6 April 1863, 2d ed., 2:1. Occupy three large hospital tents. Brooks, Washington, 48. Lincoln reads "rebel papers" for news of Charleston. Noah Brooks, "Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln," Scribner's Monthly 15 (1877/1878):673. |