Samuel P. Heintzelman to George G. Meade, February 17, 1863
GENERAL: The order I received was to replace the Pennsylvania Reserves by Pennsylvania troops.t The order I issued was for all the Pennsylvania infantry to join your army. After the order was issued, the Twenty-seventh Pennsylvania (Company F) was excepted from the order by direction of the General-in-Chief. The day the One hundred and fiftieth Regiment was embarking, Company K, of that regiment, was retained here at the special request of the President of the United States. I have no authority to send you troops from any other State. The numbers at my disposal were well understood by General Doubleday when he made the application, and the argument urged that the Reserves would soon be increased by the return of convalescents and stragglers. With those inducements, I consented to the change.
very respectfully, your obedient servant,
* Orton's, District of Columbia.
t See Williams to Doubleday, February 19, p. 87.
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