Letter

Unknown to MCDOWELL, Fairfax Court-House, July 21, 1861

HEADQUARTERS ARMY

General MCDOWELL, Fairfax Court-House : Three regiments—Woodbury’s, McOunn’s, and another, name not known—are at Fairfax Station. , A commissary train is stopped a little way out of Alexandria with a drove of cattle. Call it up, if you mean to risk a stand; but under

the circumstances it seems best to return to the line of the Potomac.

Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, 1861. Location: HEADQUARTERS ARMY.
Sources
The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 2 View original source ↗