Letter
General Scott to Schuyler Hamilton, July 20, 1861
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,
July 20, 1861.
July 20, 1861—1.30 a, m. Brigadier-General MCDOWELL, c., Centreville :
Your dispatch received at 1.5 a.m.* It is now 1.30 a. m.
Hunt’s battery left here at 5 a. m. yesterday by Fairfax road. We have but forty recruits ; orders have been given to send them forward. It will be some time before they reach you, as there is no officer to spare to send with them.
By command of General Scott:
SCHUYLER HAMILTON,
Tneutenant-Colonel and Military Secretary.
Tneutenant-Colonel and Military Secretary.
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, 1861.
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Sources
The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 2
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