Charleston (SC) Mercury, “Gen. Scott,” April 27, 1861

    Source citation
    “Gen. Scott,” Charleston (SC) Mercury, April 27, 1861, p. 1: 5.
    Newspaper: Publication
    Charleston Mercury
    Newspaper: Headline
    Gen. Scott
    Newspaper: Page(s)
    1
    Newspaper: Column
    5
    Type
    Newspaper
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Transcriber
    Don Sailer, Dickinson College
    The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.

    GEN. SCOTT. – There is no longer any doubt as to the position of Gen. SCOTT. The following order will satisfy the most skeptical. He will prove false to the mother which gave him birth:

    GENERAL ORDERS No. 3.

    HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,

    Washington, April 19, 1861.

    The Military Department of Washington is extended so as to include, in addition to the District of Columbia and Maryland, the States of Delaware and Pennsylvania, and will be commanded by Major General Patterson, belonging to the volunteers of the latter State.

    The Major General will, as fast as they are mustered into service, post the volunteers of Pennsylvania all along the railroad from Wilmington, Delaware, to Washington City, in sufficient numbers, and in such proximity, as may give a reasonable protection to the lines of parallel wires, to the road, its rails, bridges, cars and stations.

    By command: WINFIELD SCOTT.

    E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General.

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