Letter

Major-General Stahel to Lieutenant-Colonel Taylor, June 11, 1863

HEADQUARTERS STAHEL’S CAVALRY DIVISION,

Lieutenant-Colonel TayLor, A, A. G., and Chief of Staff, Dept. of Washington:

The general has sent in instructions for me to inform you that he has ordered 450 men, under command of Maj. J. Hammond, of the Fifth New York, to proceed to Middleburg and Aldie, to intercept Mosby on his way home. He wishes you to ask General Pleasonton

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to send a force of about 100 men to re-enforce Colonel De Forest, our commander at Kettle Run.

By order of Major-General Stahel :

H. BALDWIN, Jz.,
Major, and Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF Washington,
June 11, 1863—10.40 p. m.
Major-General STAHEL,
Fairfax Court-House, Va.:
Colonel Lowell will cross the river from near Poolesville at 3 a. m.
to-morrow. He has been directed by the major-general to follow the
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in N. Virginia, W. Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Pt. 1. Location: Fairfax Court-House, Va.. Summary: Major-General Stahel orders Lieutenant-Colonel Taylor to coordinate troop movements to intercept Confederate partisan Mosby and reinforce Union forces at Kettle Run during the 1863 Virginia campaign.
Sources
The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 27, Part 1 View original source ↗