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R. Patterson, June 18, 1861
HAGERSTOWN, MD. HAGERSTOWN, MD., June 18, 1861. COLONEL: Finding, on my arrival here on the 15th instant, the enemy still in the vicinity of Martinsburg, I directed, in order to…
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hk. Patterson to E.D. Townsend, June 18, 1861
HAGERSTOWN HAGERSTOWN, June 18, 1861. Col. E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant-General : From General Cadwalader’s report apprehensions existed of serious attack at Williamsport from force of fifteen thousand men. On…
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Robert Williams to E.D. Townsend, June 17, 1861
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF ANNAPOLIS, Fort McHenry, Md., June 17, 1861. Col. E. D. TOWNSEND, Asst. Adjt. Gen. U. 8S. Army: Sir: Major-General Banks, commanding the Department of Annapolis, directs me…
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Robert Patterson to Wynkoop, June 17, 1861
HAGERSTOWN, MD. HAGERSTOWN, MD., June 17, 1861. General Wynkoop, Commanding Second Brigade: GENERAL: Have your command under arms and en route to. Williamsport on the cross-road from Funkstown to Williamsport…
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Robert Patterson to NEGLEY, Hagerstown, Md, June 17, 1861
HAGERSTOWN, MD. HAGERSTOWN, MD., June 17, 1861. General NEGLEY, Hagerstown, Md.: GENERAL: Send Colonel Starkweather to Williamsport to report to General Cadwalader at daybreak or earlier. Leave a guard in…
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Robert Patterson to CADWALADER, Williamsport, Md, June 17, 1861
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA, Hagerstown, Md., June 17, 1861. General CADWALADER, Williamsport, Md.: GENERAL: Have halted Thomas, Miles, and Burnside, sent for a battery at Carlisle, and have the whole…
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Geo. Cadwalader, June 17, 1861
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA, Hagerstown, Md., June 17, 1861. Maj. Gen. GEORGE CADWALADER, Commanding, &e., near Williamsport, Md. :« GENERAL: Only the “City Troop” of cavalry ‘remain with you; all…
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Fitz J. Porter to Lew1s Wallace, June 17, 1861
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA, Hagerstown, Md., June 17, 1861. Col. LEW1s WALLACE, Eleventh Regiment Indiana Volunteers, Cumberland, Md.: COLONEL: Simultaneously with your telegram that your scouts had Seen no troops…
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Unknown to PATTERSON, U.S. A., Hagerstown, Md, June 17, 1861
HEADQUARTERS HEADQUARTERS, June 17, 1861. General PATTERSON, U.S. A., Hagerstown, Md. : We are pressed here. Send the troops that I have twice called for without delay.
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Robert Patterson to E.D. Townsend, June 17, 1861
HAGERSTOWN HAGERSTOWN, June 17, 1861. Colonel TOWNSEND: Doubleday with siege train at Harrisburg, and asks if shall take it. Would like him to return for Harper’s Ferry to secure from…