Summary:
Union General Franz Sigel reports to General Samuel Heintzelman on Confederates camped at Culpeper in October, 1862. According to Sigel's source, Staunton served then as a base of supply for the Confederate army.

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Gen. HEINTZELMAN:

FAIRFAX COURT-HOUSE, VA.,

October 13, 1862--9.30.

A man named Moore came into our lines to-day. He says he left Lynchburg and came by Gordonsville to Culpeper. At Culpeper he saw but 200 or 300 rebel soldiers; also a camp of 600 or 800 men at Rappahannock Station, 6 or 8 men at Warrenton Junction, and a vedette at Bristoe. I learn from him that there are no freight trains running from Gordonsville to Culpeper; that he only saw 8 or 10 Confederate wagons on the road, and that the enemy receive their supplies by way of Staunton.

F. SIGEL,
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 19, Serial No. 28, Pages 418, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.