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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
Arlington, Va. Arlington, Va., June 17, 1861. Lieut. Col. E. D. TOWNSEND, CoLONEL: Brigadier-General Tyler, with part of the Connecticut regiment, made, agreeably to instructions, a reconnaissance up the Loudoun…