Letter
Benjamin F. Kelley to Benjamin F. Kelley, June 9, 1863
HEADQUARTERS,
Baltimore, June 9, 1863.
Brigadier-General KELLEY, Harper’s Ferry: Send Milroy heavy artillery company to man a battery of four 20-pounder Parrotts and two 24-pounder howitzers. hat reliable intelligence have you of force up the Valley ? DONN PIATT, LIneutenant-Colonel, and Chief of Staff. HARPER’S FERRY, June 9, 1863. I have no news from the higgrety) than I reported, and that was that [W. E.] Jones had left the Valley, going toward Culpeper, and that Jenkins was in command above Strasburg. I will send the artillery company to Milroy, as directed.
B. F. KELLEY,
Brigadier-General.
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in N. Virginia, W. Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Pt. 1. Location: Baltimore. Summary: Brigadier-General Kelley requests deployment of heavy artillery to Harper's Ferry and reports Confederate troop movements in the Shenandoah Valley during June 1863.
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Sources
The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 27, Part 1
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