HDQRS. OHIO AND INDIANA PROV. BRIG.,
UNITED STATES VOLUNTEER MILITIA,
Camp Buckhannon, June 30, 1861.
SIR: I send this by special messenger to open communication with you. By order of Major-General McClellan, after a night’s march I occupied this place with my brigade—the Eighth and Tenth Indiana and Nineteenth Ohio—this morning at 7 o’clock amid the cheers and congratulations of the citizens. The Beverly and Weston roads are occupied in peace, and patrols will be established to scour the country in all directions. Let me know how you are situated, and advise me of anything relating to the movements of the secessionists in our region and elsewhere.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
W. S. ROSECRANS,
Brigadier-General.
Col. E. B. TYLER,
Seventh Ohio U. S. Volunteer Infantry, Weston.
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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