Robt. Williams to Charles P. Stone, August 31, 1861

General STONE:

SIR: Major-General Banks directs me to inform you that he arrived at this place day before yesterday. He requests that you will at your earliest convenience send him, by some responsible agent, some information as to your pickets, their posts, the position of your main body, &oc., and that you will communicate to him any information in your posSession concerning the positions, numbers, &c., of any troops which may “be between Darnestown and Washington. He requests that you will

order the section of the Rhode Island Battery now with you to join-him at your earliest convenience.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,