Head-Quarters, Middle Department, 8th Army Corps,
Baltimore, Md. June 20th, 1863
Maj. Genl. Halleck
Genl.-in-Chief
Washington, DC
Your order as to Genl. Milroy will be
obeyed as soon as practicable. I relieved
him of command at Harpers Ferry & ordered
him to report here. I then sent him back
to Harpers Ferry to assist in collecting and
reorganizing those of his troops who had arrived
then & who were to serve under Genl. Tyler.
The railroad communication being
interrupted he had to return from ________.
In the meantime I heard of a large
body of his men, who have turned up
in their retreat at Hancock had gone
up into Penn. I ordered him to proceed
by Harrisburg to Bedford to find & take
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