Unknown to Robert Patterson, July 5, 1861
General R. PATTERSON : If necessary, call up the regiment left at Frederick, and I will replace it. In an extreme case, order Colonel Wallace to join you. Colonel Stone was yesterday opposite Harper’s Ferry, with greater part of his force. : Your telegrams of the 3d and 4th received with satisfaction.
Washington, July 5, 1861—10 p. m, Major-General PATTERSON, Martinsburg:
Your letter of the 4th is received. Orders were sent this morning to Madison for the Third and Fourth Regiments from Wisconsin to repair
* Probably Townsend to Patterson, July 1, p. 157.
to Williamsport via Chambersburg and report to you. The Nineteenth and Twenty-eighth New York Regiments leave here for Hagerstown to-morrow at half past 2 p.m. You will have to provide transportation for them thence to the post you may orderthemto. If any three-months’ men will re-engage for the long term, designate a Regular officer of your command to muster them, provided a sufficient number to form a regiment can be obtained. Having defeated the enemy, if you can continue the pursuit without too great hazard, advance via Leesburg (or Strasburg) towards Alexandria; but consider the dangerous defiles, especially via Strasburg, and move with great caution, halting at Winchester and threatening a movement by Strasburg; or the passage of the Potomac twice, and coming down by Leesburg, may be the more advantageous movement.