Charles P. Stone to Charles , Devens, October 20, 1861

Col. CHARLES , DEVENS, Commanding Fifteenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers :

COLONEL: You will please send orders to the canal to have the two new flat-boats now there opposite the island transferred to the river, and will at 3 o’elock p. m. have the island re-enforced by all of your regiment now on duty on the canal and at the New York battery.

The pickets will be replaced by the companies of the Nineteenth Massachusetts there.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,