| Poolsville, June 24, 1861 -- 8 p.m. |
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| Col. E. D. Townsend |
| Assistant Adjutant-General, Headquarters of the Army |
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| Colonel, |
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I left camp at
midnight last night on a reconnaissance up the river Potomac,
accompanied by Capt. Wm. S. Abert, A. A. A. G., and Captain Stewart,
A. D. C., with an escort of a dozen cavalry, having communicated all
my plans of operations up to that time to Col. F. E. Patterson, First
Pennsylvania Regiment, and leaving him in command; passed the extreme
pickets of my command at 3 a.m. to-day, and arrived about daybreak at
the village--Point of Rocks, Md. |
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***** The enemy
destroyed to-day a large number of locomotives belonging to the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, together with a train of cars, said
to be more than half a mile long. ***** |
| Very respectfully, I am, colonel, your most obedient
servant, |
| Chas. P. Stone |
| Colonel Fourteenth Infantry Commanding |
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