CORRESPONDENCE, ORDERS, AND RETURNS RELATING TO OPERATIONS IN MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, VIRGINIA, AND WEST VIRGINIA FROM APRIL 16 TO JULY 31, 1861
CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. – UNION
O. R. – Series I – VOLUME 2 [S #2] CHAPTER IX, p. 749
Headquarters Army, Washington, July 21,1861.
Col. Sickles, Staten Island, N. Y.:
Send your regiments to this city instead of Harper’s Ferry, and hurry them.
WINFIELD SCOTT.
Alexandria, July 21,1861.
Lieutenant-General Scott:
General McDowell directs me to ask whether I shall send the troops out of the fortifications?
T. RUNYON.
Headquarters Army, July 21,1861.
General Runyon, Alexandria, Va.:
Send forward no more troops from Alexandria during the night.
WINFIELD SCOTT.
Headquarters Army, Washington, July 21, 1861.
General Runyon, Alexandria:
Let the two New Jersey regiments remain at Fairfax Station, as General McDowell must know they are there, and will call them up if he needs them.
The brig-of-war Perry will be towed down to Alexandria for any assistance she can render with her battery.
WINFIELD SCOTT.
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