Thursday, September 24, 2015

Lieutenant-General Winfield Scott to Major-General John A. Dix, June 19, 1861

Head-quarters Army, Washington, June 19,1861.

Major-general John A. Dix, 3 West Twenty-first Street:

Come to me at the first convenient moment. I shall charge you with the command of the Alexandria and Arlington Department, the next to the enemy, containing five brigades. I shall do what I can to give you some regular staff-officers. Bring horses with you.

WinfiELD Scott.

 SOURCE: Morgan Dix, Memoirs of John Adams Dix, Volume 2, p. 21

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