Summary:
Union General in Chief Winfield Scott sends a telegram through Chambersburg to General Robert Patterson in June, 1861, concerning prisoners of war.

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Maj.-Gen. PATTERSON, U. S. Army,
Cmdg., &c., Hagerstown, Md.:

Washington,

June 27, 1861.
(via Chambersburg.)

I have your telegram of this date about a prisoner.* * * You needed no special authority for sending prisoners to Fort McHenry.

WINFIELD SCOTT.

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Bibliographic Information : Letter Reproduced from The War of The Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 2, Volume 2, Serial No. 115, Pages 12, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.