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. 751
July 21,1861.
Commander Dahlgren, Navy-Yard:
Send an armed vessel at once to Alexandria, to command as much as possible the approaches to Alexandria.
MANSFIELD, Brigadier- General.
July 21,1861.
Brigadier-General McDowell, at Fairfax Court-House:
By General Scott’s orders I send you four regiments, brigaded under Colonel McCunn, to Fairfax Station, to wit: the Thirty-seventh, Colonel McCunn, Fifteenth, Colonel Murphy; Twenty-sixth, Colonel Christian; Twenty-fifth, Colonel Kerrigan.
They should all be at the point above designated by 6 p. m.
They have three days’ supply of rations.
MANSFIELD, Brigadier- General.
[All of the regiments mentioned are New York Infantry.]
July 21,1861.
General Runyon, Alexandria:
Hold my two last regiments at Alexandria and man your lines.
McDowell is on the retreat.
MANSFIELD, Brigadier- General.
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