...ppose, he said, in a letter to General Butler, General Patterson, and others, that a column from this place [Washington] of three thousand men, another from York of three thousand men, a third from Perryville , or Elkton, by land or water, or both, of three thousand men, and a fourth from Annapolis, by water, of three thousand men, might suffice. Twelve thousand men, it was thought, might be wanted for ...