Robert Patterson to Edward D. Townsend, July 5, 1861

Col. E. D. TOWNSEND, Have ordered up everything—Colonel Stcne, Cumberland, and Frederick foree. Large re-enforcements have come in from Manassas… R. PATTERSON, Major-General, Commanding. MARTINSBURG, V. A., July 6, 1861. Telegram of yesterday received. Many thanks for the Wisconsin and New York regiments. Can you give me the New York Sixty-ninth (Colonel Corcoran)? I know you will appreciate the motive which prompts me to urge this request, and pardon my importunity. The insurgents have unquestionably received large re-enforcements, and are said to have twenty-six thousand, with twenty-four guns, many rifled, and some of very large caliber. I hope in proper season to give you a good account of them. Colonel Stone is coming up on the Maryland side, and will probably reach Williamsport to-morrow. Wallace ordered on.

R. PATTERSON,