Letter
A. N. Duffie to Will Rumsey, May 4, 1864
HEADQUARTERS THIRD CAVALRY BRIGADE,
Arricania Court-House, May 4, 1864.
Capt. WILL RUMSEY, Assistant Adjutant-General, Cavalry Division: Sir: The road up Island Creek is not picketed. I would respectfully request that Colonel Oley be ordered to send a company to icket this road. Already 1 man and 2 horses of some command have been captured some three-fourths of a mile up this creek, they having straggled on this road. There seems to be a small squad of bushwhackers up there. I have sent out a squad of about twenty men to overtake, attack, and capture these marauders. My men are now engaged with them, as I suppose, from the firing I hear. I do not wish to do this picket duty if it can be avoided. I am, captain,
very respectfully, &c.,. :
A. N. DUFFIE,
Brigadier-General, Commanding Cavalry.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF WEST Virginia,
Brigadier-General, Commanding Cavalry.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF WEST Virginia,
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, Pt. 1. Location: Arricania Court-House. Summary: Brigadier General A. N. Duffie requests Captain Will Rumsey to order Colonel Oley to send a company to picket the Island Creek road due to bushwhacker attacks and recent captures.
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The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 37, Part 1
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