Headquarters,
Military Department of Washington, PHILADELPHIA, April 28th, 1861
Brig. General B. F. BUTLER
GENERAL: I am directed by the Major General to call your
earnest attention to the necessity of keeping the Railroad in repair from
Annapolis to the Junction & guarding it at all times.
He suggests that you should personally pass along the line
as frequently as possible, and should require the greatest care to be exercised
in preserving the engines & cars from all injury. Troops should be
stationed at all points, with orders to shoot instantly any person or persons
found in the act of injuring the road or doing anything to impede the trains.
Wanton firing of arms should be strictly prohibited along
the line; it causes a great waste of ammunition & interferes in various
ways with the orderly performance of duties.
Very respectfully
your obedient servant,
CRAIG BIDDLE, A.D.C.
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. 54
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