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required to hold the place, taking into account the possibility of an attack from Baltimore.
I told him that my belief was that it could be held with two good regiments and a battery of my light artillery.
He thought that I required a very small force, and I replied:--
“The railroad comes down for miles beside high cliffs, the water of the river running below.
The viaduct crosses the Patapsco River opposite the junction, and can be commanded by artillery for a mile or more, the guns being posted on a small lunette at the head of the viaduct.
In case of a threatened attack troops can be ”
A. M. Thayer and Co. 1892.
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