Summary:
Union Assistant Adjutant Edward D. Townsend writes General Robert Patterson, stationed at Chambersburg, in June, 1861. Townsend instructs him to delay any advance until more troops arrive.

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Gen. R. PATTERSON, Chambersburg, Pa.

WASHINGTON,

June 4, 1861.

Gen. Scott says do not make a move forward until you are joined by a battery of the Fourth Artillery and a battalion of five companies Third U. S. Infantry, to leave here the 6th instant for Carlisle. Company F, Fourth Artillery, is the one to be mounted. Orders have been given to purchase horses and collect the guns, equipments, &c., as soon as possible, at Carlisle. It will require some days, but the General considers this addition to your force indispensable. If two Ohio regiments come to you, retain them. Also halt the first two regiments that may pass through Harrisburg from the North to this city, and add them to your force. You will receive a letter from the General before you move.

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