Letter
Robert Patterson to NEGLEY, Hagerstown, Md, June 17, 1861
HAGERSTOWN, MD.
HAGERSTOWN, MD., June 17, 1861.
General NEGLEY, Hagerstown, Md.:
GENERAL: Send Colonel Starkweather to Williamsport to report to General Cadwalader at daybreak or earlier. Leave a guard in camp. Take forty rounds of cartridges. Send pickets well in advance. Hold your two regiments (Johnston’s and Oakford’s) ready, and march with them in time to be within reach of General Cadwalader at daybreak. Give your men forty rounds, and take care to keep them together, and not to fire except by order, lest they fire into their own friends.
By order of General Patterson :
F. J. PORTER,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
_ P.S.—Have the Connecticut regiment and Jarrett's ready to move
at daybreak.
Assistant Adjutant-General.
_ P.S.—Have the Connecticut regiment and Jarrett's ready to move
at daybreak.
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, 1861. Location: HAGERSTOWN, MD..
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The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 2
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