Saturday, September 30, 2017

Edwin M. Stanton to Governor Andrew G. Curtin, May 25, 1862

WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington, D. C., May 25, 1862.
Governor CURTIN,
Harrisburg:

Send all the troops forward that you can immediately. Banks is completely routed. The enemy are in large force advancing upon Harper's Ferry.

EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary.

(Same to Governor Andrew, Boston, and to Governor Sprague, Providence.)

SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series III, Volume 2 (Serial No. 123), p. 70

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