Letter

F. J. Porter to HpQrs. DEPARTMENT NORTHEASTERN VIRGINIA, June 16, 1861

Author

F. J. Porter

Recipient

HpQrs. DEPARTMENT NORTHEASTERN VIRGINIA

Date

June 16, 1861

Type

Letter

Hagerstown, Md., June 16, 1861.

Bvt. Maj. Gen. GhorGE CADWALADER, Commanding First Division :

GENERAL: The commanding general wishes you to detach forthwith the whole of the Rhode Island regiment and battery, and send it immediately on receipt of this, with secret orders, to this place to march to Frederick, and there take rail for Washington City. Stop also the cavalry going towards Cumberland, and be ready to fall back to this bank of the Potomac. Orders will be sent to you to-morrow by noon.

By order of Major-General Patterson :

Assistant Adjutant-General.
HpQrs. DEPARTMENT NORTHEASTERN VIRGINIA,
Arlington, Va., June 17, 1861.
Lieut. Col. E. D. TOWNSEND,
Asst. Adjt. Gen., Hdqrs. of the Army, Washington, D. C.:
CoLONEL: Brigadier-General Tyler, with part of the Connecticut regiment, made, agreeably to instructions, a reconnaissance up the Loudoun
and Hampshire Koad as far as Vienna. He found all the bridges and

Editor's Notes

From: Operations in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, 1861. Location: Hagerstown, Md.. Summary: Major-General Patterson orders the immediate redeployment of the Rhode Island regiment and battery to Washington, halts cavalry movements toward Cumberland, and prepares defensive positioning along the Potomac.

Topics

1861 Civil War Field Reports Military Correspondence Military Operations

Sources

The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 2 View original source ↗