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Unknown to Runyon, Alexandria, Va, July 21, 1861
HEADQUARTERS ARMY HEADQUARTERS ARMY, July 21, 1861. General Runyon, Alexandria, Va. : Send forward no more troops from Alexandria during the night.
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Letters from 1861
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Lieutenant-General Scorr to Irvin McDowell, July 21, 1861
FAIRFAX FAIRFAX, July 21, 1861. General MCDOWELL: I have learned from my scouts that large trees are felled across the turnpike on road from here to Alexandria. Things are looking…
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Unknown to McDOWELL, Centreville, July 21, 1861
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, July 21, 1861. : July 21, 1861—9 p. m. General McDOWELL, Centreville : Besides three regiments sent you by General Runyon from the reserve, four regiments…
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Unknown to MCDOWELL, Fairfax Court-House, July 21, 1861
HEADQUARTERS ARMY HEADQUARTERS ARMY, July 21, 1861. 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…
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Unknown to Irvin McDowell, January 1, 1861
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, ie 21, 1861. Brigadier-General MCDOWELL, Commanding, Ce. It is known that a strong re- diiortomont left Wihoheser on the afternoon of the 18th, which you…
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Unknown to Joseph F. Mansfield, July 20, 1861
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, July 20, 1861. General MANSFIELD, Commanding, é&e. : Telegraphic communication only open to Fairfax. You will please therefore take measures to carry out instructions of…
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General Scott to Schuyler Hamilton, July 20, 1861
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, July 20, 1861. July 20, 1861—1.30 a, m. Brigadier-General MCDOWELL, c., Centreville : Your dispatch received at 1.5 a.m.* It is now 1.30 a. m. Hunt’s…
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Irvin McDowell to D. E. SIcKLES, Staten Island, N. Y, July 20, 1861
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, July 20, 1861. Col. D. E. SIcKLES, Staten Island, N. Y.: Lieutenant-General Scott desires that as many of the regiments under your command as are…
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Montgomery C. Meigs to Quarternaster-General, July 18, 1861
QUARTERMASTER GENERAL’S OFFICE, Washington City, July 18, 1861. Major-General MCCLELLAN, Beverly, Va.: No surplus transportation at Leavenworth. Dickerson at Cincinnati reports two or three hundred horses on hand. [have ordered…
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Irvin McDowell to McClellan, Beverly, Va, July 18, 1861
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, July 18, 1861. General MCCLELLAN, Beverly, Va. : Your suggestions in respect to Staunton would be admirable, like your other conceptions and…