Summary:
Union Assistant Adjutant E. D. Townsend writes in June, 1861, to General Robert Patterson, commanding at Chambersburg, with authorization from General-in-Chief Winfield Scott to order reinforcements to his command.

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

WASHINGTON,

June 10, 1861.

The Gen.-in-Chief says call the two regiments of Cols. Small and Einstein to your column. He thinks this will probably be as much addition as your will now require to your force.

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