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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill OPERATIONS AND PLANS, JUNE 16 TO JULY 16 NORTH On the 27th of April, Major-General Robert Patterson,1 of the Pennsylvania Militia, a veteran of the War of 1812, had been assigned to the command of the Department of Pennsylvania. For some weeks he devoted his time to organizing his new troops, after which he began to push them down into Maryland and towards the Virginia border. A few detachments of regulars, infantry, cavalry, and guns, were sent to him, which, however slight in numbers, he looked to as the stiffening of his army. By the 1st of June the greater part of Patterson's four brigades was concentrating about Chambersburg, Ha- gerstown, and Williamsport, practically ready to cross the Potomac at the latter point. He had about 12,000 men and his numbers slowly increased to 14,000 by the 28th of June. On the 15th of that month, the day on which Johnston's rear-guard left Harper's Ferry, Patterson was still at Chambersburg, and had not yet crossed the Potomac. 1 Captain, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel, 2d Pennsylvania Militia, 1812-13; major-general of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1846-47. June 16, 1861 ?11 A.m. Major-general Patterson . . . What movement, if any, in pursuit of the enemy, do you propose to make consequent on the evacuation of Harper's Ferry? If no pursuit, and I recommend none specially, send to me at once all the regular troops, horse and foot, with you, and also the Rhode Island regiment. Winfield Scott. To this Patterson replied: Design no pursuit; cannot make it. l The impatient dispatch of the commander-in-chief, together with its answer, will serve better than anything else to mark the turn which the Federal operations took at this date. Patterson's slowness had discouraged the Government, and Scott was now apparently beco...
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