To Villain Hallock From Milroy July 5th 1863

              Copy of a letter sent to the Villain Hallock 

 
 
			Baltimore MD
 
July 5th 1863

 
 
General
 
Impelled by the highest sense of duty to 
my country and myself at this trying crises 
I break through forms to address you directly.  
I have been summarily deprived of command 
and placed in arrest by your order. I feel very 
sure that you are laboring under some great 
misapprehension, else you could not have done 
me this great injustice. I know not why I have 
been arrested. It cannot have been for cowardice 
for I have never avoided danger when duty called 
without having the remotest idea or intunation that 
Lee’s army had escaped from Hooker. Our mistaking 
his advance for a raid, I with less then 7,000 
men engaged and fought them three days, when 
being surrounded by 60,000 of the enemy and my  
ammunition and provisions being exhausted, I cut my 
way out and got through with over 5,000 men who 
are now on duty. I cannot have been arrested for 
the following is a copy  
of the last order I received at Winchester from 
Maj. General Schenck.______” Baltimore, June 12th I, o clock 1863”

 
 
“Maj. General R.H. Milroy”

 
	Lt. Col Piatt, as I learn by a copy of dispatch 
sent me, which he forwarded to you from Harper’s Ferry