Summary:
E. D. Townsend writes from Chambersburg to Union Colonel C. P. Stone regarding the first tentative advances against the Confederacy in June, 1861.

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Col. C.P. STONE, U.S. Army, Commanding, &c., Rockville, Md.:

HEADQUARTERS,

June 11, 1861

SIR:

The following is a copy of a dispatch received this afternoon from Gen. Patterson, which is communicated for your guidance:
CHAMBERSBURG, June 11, 1861.

Col. Wallace (regiment of volunteers from Evansville, Ind.) yesterday peaceably occupied Cumberland, and acts on my instructions of the 6th instant. He will call to-day on small parties of secession militia in his vicinity. I advance on Friday, the earliest day.

Maj. Porter, A.A.G., in a note says the general will not receive all his transportation before Monday, the 17th instant. The Gen.-in-Chief thinks you are a day or two in advance of Gen. Patterson's movement, taking the above date in connection with the rise in the river, and he suggests that you time your advance accordingly.

I am, &c.,

E.D. TOWNSEND.

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Bibliographic Information : Letter Reproduced from The War of The Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 1, Volume 2, Serial No. 2, Pages 105, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.