Robert Anderson to Samuel Gill, September 18, 1861

– SAMUEL GILL, Esq.: rss i I will thank you to issue order at once and send runners to the different counties recommending the Home Guards, with their arms, to renI omitted to state that while in the service they will receive the same:

J CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.—UNION. BELL

DS Ry oC pr al AR dezvous at Camp Dick Robinson, Lexington, and other points which o you may deem advisable. In this way we ean secure them for my force for defense, and prevent the taking of the arms from the scattered Home Guards. 7

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,