Records Related to Augusta County Regiments



From: JOHN W. WOOL, Maj.-Gen.
July 31, 1862

Summary:
Union General John Wool reports to Secretary of War Stanton on the approach of enemy troops from Staunton in this late July, 1862, dispatch.


Hon. E. M. STANTON,
Secretary of War:

BALTIMORE, MD.,

July 31, 1862

I have just received from Governor F. Peirpoint at Wheeling the following, viz:

There is an actual necessity of three regiments from Grafton to Clarksburg at this time. There is danger in that direction, coming from Staunton.

I have no regiments to spare.

JOHN W. WOOL,
Maj.-Gen.


Bibliographic Information : Letter Reproduced from The War of The Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 1, Volume 12, Serial No. 18, Pages 520, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.


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