[1] ALS, IHi. On May 18, General Schenck wrote Governor Curtin as follows:
``My conviction is briefly this: The only sure way to defend and guard the border is to keep all rebel forces out of West Virginia, or, rather, out of all the northern portion of Virginia, and this can only be done by a sufficient force of cavalry, to be kept south of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The late rebel raid . . . should be a lesson. . . .
``Cavalry is, I repeat, needed; 10,000 well-mounted men would give more effective security than three times the number of infantry.