Colonel Lippitt to C. D. Douglas, March 31, 1862

CAPTAIN: You are directed by the colonel commanding the district immediately upon the receipt of this to detail a discreet and reliable non-commissioned officer and ten men to take post at Riley’s, Liscombe’s Hill, with instructions to furnish escorts from Daley’s Ferry, on Mad River, hy Bates’, Riley’s, and the trail to Minor’s, as far as may be needed, to all trains with Government supplies, all express messengers to or from these or other military headquarters, to all Government mail riders, and so far as practicable to all private trains and traveling parties. You will order the detachment to take with them ten days’ rations, a sufficient quantity of ammunition, and relieve them every ten days,

By order of Colonel Lippitt: