Schuyler Hamilton to Tieutenant-Colonel and Military Secretary, June 11, 1861
Colonel Wallace (regiment of volunteers from Evansville, Ind.) yesterday peaceably occupied Cumberland, and acts on my instructions of the 6th instant. He will call to-day on small parties of secession militia in his vicinity, I advance on Friday, the earliest day.
Major Porter, A. A. G., in a note says the general will not receive all his transportation before Mo onday, the 17th instant. The General-in-Chief thinks you are a day or two in advance of General Patterson’s movement, taking the above date in connection with the rise in the river, and he suggests that you time poo advance apcordingly.
Washington, D. C., June 22, 1861.
CoLoNEL: The General-in-Chief desires me to say he has written to General Patterson to propose a column in the direction intimated in conjunction with a movement in co-operation from Alexandria. Of course _ your column would be absorbed by General Patterson in this movement. ~The General*in-Chief would be glad that you should furnish him any
snggestions which may occur to you. Instructions have been given to General Mansfield to carry out your suggestions as to the battalion of District volunteers stationed at Seneca Mills, also to supply their place by a suitable force.
Respectfully, &c.,
Tieutenant-Colonel and Military Secretary.
Washington, July 6, 1861.
_ Col. C. P. Stonn, U. S. Army: ;
of the 4th and two of the 5th, have been received.*
~~ The General-in-Chief has been highly pleased with the whole conduct
of your expedition, and only regrets that it has not been in his power