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Unknown to Burleigh, May 11, 1864
MARTINSBURG
MARTINSBURG, May 11, 1864.
Captain BURLEIGH, Assistant Adjutant-General: The cavalry here has been ordered to Front Royal. If they go, I shall be left without a picket, and the trains will be indanger. Can you relieve them? I have refused to let them go until I hear from you. Lieutenant-Colonel Blakely has ordered Captain Walker, who commands the cavalry here, to be ready to move. Walker was ordered here to report to me by General Sigel. I will arrest Lieutenant-Colonel Blakely and send him to Harper’s Ferry if he attempts to give orders here. Am I right?
R. 8. RODGERS,
Colonel, Commanding.
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, Pt. 1. Location: MARTINSBURG. Summary: Colonel Rodgers requests Burleigh's authorization to retain local cavalry pickets at Martinsburg to protect trains, threatening to arrest Lieutenant-Colonel Blakely for issuing conflicting orders.
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The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 37, Part 1
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