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
