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. 754
Headquarters Army, July 22, 1861.
Colonel McCunn, Thirty-seventh New York, Fairfax Station:
Come in with the regiments with you and Colonel Woodbury to your camps in Washington.
WINFIELD SCOTT.
Alexandria, July 22, 1861.
Col. T. A. Scott:
General Scott’s last instructions to me last night, before I retreated, was to retire to our camps in Washington. Is this order to be respected?
McCUNN.
[Indorsement.]
He evidently meant to the lines of the Potomac, to cover retreat, protected by the forts, of the straggling army of McDowell, which is now coming in.
T. A. S
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