John A. Dix, . A to Hunry H. Lockwoop, October 9, 1861

Brig. Gen. Hunry H. Lockwoop, Commanding at Cambridge, Md. :

GENERAL: All the disunion companies in Queen Anne County should be disarmed. I much prefer that you should do the work with your Delaware troops. Arms and prisoners should be sent here. Iam trying to get a steamer to put at your disposal. If I do not succeed, I _ must send you our tug at Annapolis. We can spare her two or three _ days in a week. – ;

If you can get any legitimate authority, executive or military, in Delaware to direct the disbandment or disarming of companies in that State it should be done. In that case I think the arms had better be

.deposited at Fort Delaware. I have been urging the Government for -` two months to send a force into Accomac and Northampton Counties, Va., and break up the rebel camps there. General McClellan encouraged me to believe that it would be done, and I trust it will not be ‘delayed much longer. I am, general,

very respectfully, yours,.