Robert Patterson to Fitz J. Porter, June 4, 1861
COLONEL: The last paragraph in the general’s letter [next preceding] refers to this, that at night the sound of the hammer is heard breaking stone on the Maryland Heights, the ax felling trees. Evidently a block_ house is going up. No one can get near enough to see, and no one is permitted to come here all the way from there. Their informers only go part way. No guns have been placed on this side, unless they are light field pieces, and taken up in wagons. The Virginia side of the Shenandoah is armed, and the guns are iron and long—probably 32 or
Governor BUCKINGHAM, Norwich, Conn. :
Send on to this place your three years’ regiments as soon as organized. Report when. ! SIMON CAMERON, Secretary of War.
(Similar dispatches to governors of Maine, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and Wisconsin.)
CHAMBERSBURG, P. A., June 3, 1861. To the United States Troops of this Department : The restraint which has necessarily been imposed upon you, impatient to overcome those who have raised their parricidal hands against our country, is about to be removed. You will soon meet the insurgents.