Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Mayor George W. Brown to John W. Garrett, April 21, 1861 - 3.15 p.m.

WASHINGTON, 3.15 P.M. April 21, 1861
J. W. GARRETT, Pres.

WE have again seen the Pres., Gen’l. Scott, Sec'y of War, and other members of the Cabinet, and the troops are ordered to return forthwith to Harrisburg. A messenger goes with us from General Scott. We return immediately.

GEO. W. BROWN

SOURCE: Jessie Ames Marshall, Editor, Private and Official Correspondence of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler During the Period of the Civil War, Volume 1: April 1860 – June 1862, p. 21

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