EDITORS SENTINEL:-Enclosed you will find a copy of col. cutler's report of our late expedition.
We have since our arrival here, learned that Stuart, with a force of 3,500 cavalry passed over the country with six miles of us while we lay at Walter's Tavern. If col. Sullivan had obeyed orders we would have bagged them.
We arrived here Tuesday, the same day Jackson skedaddled: as usual too late for the fight though we did some tall marching to get here in time marching form Fredericksburg in two days.
We start again in the morning to follow Jackson and I hope soon to be able to send you something important.
We were reviewed to-day by General Pope. Yours respectfully Ed P. Brooks, Acting Adjutant Sixth Wis.
