Special Cone An Hpgrs. Drep't Northeastern Virginia to George B. McClellan, July 18, 1861

QUARTERMASTER GENERAL’S OFFICE,
Washington City, July 18, 1861.
Major-General MCCLELLAN, Beverly, Va.:

No surplus transportation at Leavenworth.

Dickerson at Cincinnati reports two or three hundred horses on hand. [have ordered large quantities of wagons built at Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Wheeling, and other points; informed Captain Craig some days ago of names, and authorized him to order the wagons for you. I have also directed the builders to fill his orders.

In extremity, I advise you to buy the country wagons and horses and give orders on the quartermaster for payment.

Drafts on this department will be honored if indorsed by you.

General Lyon obtained funds and transportation in Missouri by this means, and it had a good effect on the people.

Endeavor to draw horses and transportation from loyal parts of Kentucky and Tennessee. This will confirm the loyalty of the districts benefited.

BEVERLY, July 20, 1861. Col. E. D. TOWNSEND:

Nothing new to-day except confirmation of Cox’s check.* Jam gathering a column to accompany me via Summersville; it is slow work, and the distance is great. What news from Manassas? I anxiously await it.

“*See McClellan’s reports, p. 288.

Washington, July 20, 1861. Col. D. E. SIcKLES, Staten Island, N. Y.:

Lieutenant-General Scott desires that as many of the regiments under your command as are accepted, mustered into service, armed and ready, be without delay put en route to Harper’s Ferry, and there join the army under General Patterson in the valley of the Shenandoah.*

Assistant Adjutant-Generul.

SPECIAL ORDERS, } HogRkSs. DEP’T NORTHEASTERN VIRGINIA, No. 37. Centreville, July 20, 1861.

The general commanding has learned with regret that the term of service of the Fourth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers is about to expire. The services of this regiment have been so important, its good conduct so general, its patience under privations so constant, its state of efficiency so good, that the departure of the regiment at this time can only be considered an important loss to the Army.

Fully recognizing the right of the regiment to its discharge and payment at the time agreed upon when it was mustered into the service, and determined.to carry out literally the agreement of the Government in this respect, the general commanding, nevertheless, requests the regiment to continue in service a few days longer, pledging himself that the postponement of the date of muster out of service shall not exceed two weeks. Such members of the regiment as do not accede to this request will be placed under the command of proper officers to be marched to the rear, mustered out of service, and paid as soon as possible after the expiration of their terms of service.

By command of General McDowell:

Assistant Adjutant-General.
SPECIAL cone an Hpgrs. DrEP’t NORTHEASTERN VIRGINIA,
No. 39 Centreville, July 20, 1861. 1. The Fourth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, having Counieied
the period of its enlistment, is hereby honorably discharged from the
service of the United States. The regiment will, under command of
the heutenant-colonel, take up the march to-morrow for Alexandria,
and on its arrival at that place will report to General Runyon to be
mustered out of the service.