Robt. Williams to E.D. Townsend, July 9, 1861

Col. E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant-General, U. 8S. Army:

Sir: The general commanding directs me to report, for the information of the General in-Chief, that, in accordance with instructions from your office of July 5, the First Maryland Regiment left its camp at Mount Clare Station, Baltimore, at 9.30 o’clock p. m., on the 7th instant, with orders “to take post and cover the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal between Dams No. 4 and 5, and as much below and above as practicable.” The regiment was under the command of General Cooper, of the Maryland volunteers, and was sent by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to Frederick, Md., where it was to be furnished with wagon transportation. Cuap. IX.] CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.—UNION. 739.

Major-General Banks regrets the delay with which the orders of the General-in-Chief in the case have been carried out. It was to a great extent unavoidable.

very respectfully, your obedient servant,