Letter
Chas. P. Stone to Brigadier- General, October 20, 1861
Poolesville, 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,
Brigadier- General.
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Maryland, N. Virginia, W. Virginia, 1861–62. Location: Poolesville. Summary: Brigadier General Chas. P. Stone orders Colonel Charles Devens to transfer flat-boats to the river and reinforce the island with Massachusetts regiment troops at 3 p.m. on October 20, 1861.
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The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 5
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