Philadelphia,
Wilmington & Baltimore Rail Road Company,
PHILADELPHIA, April 21,
1861
General B. F. BUTLER
DEAR SIR: We want very much to establish a daily line
between Perryville & Annapolis to connect with our train from here at 11½ A.M.,
& at Perryville to connect with our night line up, arriving here at 9½ A.M.
making a daily line both ways. In order to do this efficiently it will be
necessary for you to return one or two boats to Col. Dare as soon as you can. I
am delighted with the reports of your campaign. It is brilliant & worthy of
a true son of Massachusetts. I hear there is a large encampment establishing at
Acquia Creek. Look out that they do not march up & cut you off at Annapolis,
or between that and the Junction. I hear to-day from a reliable man direct from
Charleston that three thousand troops are now on their way from Charleston,
either for Richmond or Norfolk.
Yours truly,
S. M. FELTON
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. 22
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