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 Lieutenant-General SCOTT: Lieutenant-General SCOTT:
  
-GENERAL: In obedience to your command, I have occupied the station at the Relay House, nine miles from Baltimore, with the **Eighth New York Regiment.** I have learned however that a force of two regiments of dragoons had been raised and were in force at Ellicott'​s Mills, some eight miles from this point, and I therefore ordered up **Major Cook's light battery, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia**, which was with me at Annapolis; and as I was moving Colonel Jones' **Sixth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia** from the capital, I ordered them also here, so that I am here in considerable force, to wit: +GENERAL: In obedience to your command, I have occupied the station at the Relay House, nine miles from Baltimore, with the **Eighth New York Regiment.** I have learned however that a force of two regiments of dragoons had been raised and were in force at Ellicott'​s Mills, some eight miles from this point, and I therefore ordered up **Major Cook's light battery, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia**, which was with me at Annapolis; and as I was moving Colonel Jones' **Sixth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia** from the capital, I ordered them also here..." - War of the Rebellion: Serial 002 Page 0623 Chapter IX. CORRESPONDENCE,​ ETC.-UNION.
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-Colonel Lyons, Eighth Regiment 1,000 men.\\  +
-Colonel Jones, Sixth Regiment 600 \\  +
-Major Cook 100 \\  +
-Total 1,600 " - War of the Rebellion: Serial 002 Page 0623 Chapter IX. CORRESPONDENCE,​ ETC.-UNION.+
  
 5/31/1861 - "An advance guard of sixty United States troops were at Hallafield, above Ellicott'​s Mills, yesterday morning."​ - //Baltimore Sun//, 5/31/1861 5/31/1861 - "An advance guard of sixty United States troops were at Hallafield, above Ellicott'​s Mills, yesterday morning."​ - //Baltimore Sun//, 5/31/1861
  
 +7/31/1861 - **4th Wisconsin** - "One such detachment under the command of Company I's Sergeant James Farnsworth guarded the woods near Ellicott'​s Mills on the Harper'​s Ferry Railroad. Its instructions were to inspect all goods which passed south..."​
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 10/​1861-11/​1861 - "​During its stay at the Relay House, a detachment occupied Ellicott'​s Mills, guarding the Harper'​s Ferry R. R., and examining the goods which passed toward the enemy..."​ - History and catalogue of the **Fourth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers**,​ from June, 1861 to March, 1864. 10/​1861-11/​1861 - "​During its stay at the Relay House, a detachment occupied Ellicott'​s Mills, guarding the Harper'​s Ferry R. R., and examining the goods which passed toward the enemy..."​ - History and catalogue of the **Fourth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers**,​ from June, 1861 to March, 1864.
  
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