...th partial success, General Taliaferro, with the assistance of Colonel Andrew Talcot, saving many of the guns and much of the Material. On the 22d April, by the authority of the Governor of the State of Virginia , Brigadier-General Ruggles assumed command of the volunteers and militia along the line of the Potomac, extending from Mount Vernon south to the mouth of the Rappahannock, with headquarters at Frede...