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McCrary Updates Carroll

On July 21, 1877 Secretary of War George W. McCrary informs Maryland Governor John L. Carroll of the troops that are coming to his aid.

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To Governor John Lee Carroll, Camden Station, Baltimore:

General Thomas M. Vincent, Acting Adjutant General, has been ordered to send to your aid any available force, especially artillery, from Fort McHenry, which it is hoped may prove very useful. If General French can be spared from West Virginia he will be sent to your aid. Address any further communication to-night to General Vincent, who has full authority.


GEORGE W. McCRARY, Secretary of War.

About this Document

  • Source: McCrary Updates Carroll
  • Author: J. Thomas Scharff
  • Publisher: John B. Piet
  • Published: Baltimore
  • Date: July 21, 1877