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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), A Narrative of the service of Colonel Geo. A. Porterfield in Northwestern Virginia in 1861-1861, (search)
the northwestern part of this State, with written instructions from General R, E. Lee prior to my assignment thereto. I would call attention to the instructions giv to Hon. Simon Cameron, Secretary of War, dated May 8th, and Major Boykin to General Lee, May 10, 1861. Whilst one of my first companies was rendezvoused at Fettermew days before I ascertained the real condition of the country, and informed General Lee of the same by letter and by verbal messages. The authorities were as fullyto effect. Up to this time I had not been ordered to break the railroad. General Lee says (page 802, Official Records): It is not intended to interfere with the ng aid from the State then and hoping for its accession to the Confederacy. General Lee writes to General J. E. Johnston, June 7, 1861: The evacuation of the latter pursued. This also is an error. He was not there. An officious report to General Lee appears in the Records, signed M. G. Harman, Major, J. M. Heck, Colonel, and