Robert Williams to 700 OPERATIONS IN MD., PA., VA., AND W. VA. (Cuar. Ix, June 17, 1861

Fort McHenry, Md., June 17, 1861.

Col. E. D. TOWNSEND, Asst. Adjt. Gen. U. 8S. Army:

Sir: Major-General Banks, commanding the Department of Annapolis, directs me to state, for the information of the General-in-Chief, that he has moved the Thirteenth Regiment New York State troops, Col. Abel Smith commanding, from Annapolis ; Major Cook’s battery of light artillery, Massachusetts volunteers, from the Relay House, and the Twenty-second Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Col. Turner G. Morehead commanding, from Patterson Park, Baltimore, to a camp in the outskirts of Baltimore, near the Washin eton and Baltimore Railroad. He thinks that the partial concentration of the troops in the vicinity of Baltimore will exercise an important moral effect upon the disaffected inhabitants of the city, besides giving him the opportunity of promptly forwarding any of his command who may in future be needed in the Department of Washington.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant

Assistant Adjutant- General.

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WAR DEPARTMENT, June 18, 1861.