Rk. S. Garnett to R. S. Garnett, May 27, 1861
No. 127. Richmond, Va., May 27, 1861. The commanding officer of the cavalry camp at Ashland will select the four companies of his command best prepared for actual service in the field, and prepare them to move by railroad to Manassas Junction. Two of these companies will take the cars on Wednesday, at such hour and place as the railroad officers may appoint with the Quartermaster’s Department, and will be followed on the next day by the two remaining companies. The four companies will be placed under the command of Maj. Julian Harrison, Virginia volunteers, who will report to Brigadier-General Bonham on their arrival at Manassas Junction. They will be provided with at least one day’s cooked rations for the journey.
By order of Major-General Lee:
Adjutant-General. .
Yorktown, Va., May 27, 1861.
Col. R. S. GARNETT:
Hampton, and Major Cary also is retreating on this place with about
sixty-five men, out of some two hundred, which he had a day or two
since—the remainder of his men being occupied attending to their retreating families. He left two pieces of indifferent artillery behind him