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.

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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.

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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.