Letter
Schuyler Hamilton to Tneutenant-Colonel and Military Secretary, July 20, 1861
July 20, 1861.
July 20, 1861â1.30 a, m. Brigadier-General MCDOWELL, c., Centreville :
Your dispatch received at 1.5 a.m.* It is now 1.30 a. m.
Huntâs battery left here at 5 a. m. yesterday by Fairfax road. We have but forty recruits ; orders have been given to send them forward. It will be some time before they reach you, as there is no officer to spare to send with them.
By command of General Scott:
Tneutenant-Colonel and Military Secretary.
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, 1861. Summary: Schuyler Hamilton informs Brigadier-General McDowell that Hunt's battery departed yesterday and forty recruits are being sent forward without an accompanying officer, per General Scott's orders.
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The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 2
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