HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA,
Martinsburg, Va., via Bedford, July 8, 1861.
COMMANDING OFFICER, Cumberland, Md.:
Your two Pennsylvania regiments have been ordered to Cumberland, and placed under the orders of General Patterson, who directs you to hold that place and protect the people of the country, but unless threatened, to make no aggressive movement into Virginia without strong inducements and certainty of success.
If your judgment approves, occupy Piedmont, and be governed in your policy by instructions given Colonel Wallace, a copy of which will go to you.
F. J. PORTER,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
Sources
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Series I, Vol. II. With additions and corrections. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1902.
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