Summary:
Union Assistant Adjutant Edward D. Townsend writes General Robert Patterson, commanding at Chambersburg, in June, 1861. Townsend instructs Patterson to await orders.

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Gen. R. PATTERSON, U. S. A.,
Chambersburg, Pa.:

WASHINGTON,

June 3, 1861.

Gen. Scott will send you in a few days a letter of instructions. One or two batteries will be sent you. Your plan of operations was received yesterday.

E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-Gen.

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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 660, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.