Summary:
Union cavalry commander Alfred Pleasonton reports to Lieut.-Colonel Dickinson on
November, 1862, movements in the Shenandoah Valley. He reports Hill's division
en route to Staunton.
Lieut.-Col. DICKINSON,
Assistant Adjutant-Gen.,
Center Grand Division:
November 17, 1862
COL.:
A contraband just in, who left Strasburg last Thursday, states that D. H. Hill's corps was 2 miles beyond that place, on the railroad to Mount Jackson. Hill was tearing up the road and destroying the bridges. The rebels thought we intended following them in that valley. D. H. Hill was en route to Staunton. Jackson's corps was between Strasburg and Winchester; Ewell and A. P. Hill were with Jackson. Provisions were scarce, and the rebels were obliged to move to get them. My pickets on the Orleans road have been attacked this morning by Stuart's cavalry. I have sent out re-enforcements. They have also attacked me on the Waterloo road; nothing serious, however. No enemy in sight at Sulphur Springs. I have sent half a regiment to Fayetteville, to guard the fords. Averell's brigade will cover the road behind the Fifth Corps, in the direction of Warrenton Junction. The Second Brigade will take the Fayetteville road. I shall move with this latter brigade. My headquarters to-night will be near the junction with the Warrenton Junction road.
Very respectfully,
A. PLEASONTON,
Brig.-Gen., Cmdg. Division.
Bibliographic Information : Letter Reproduced from The War of The Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 1, Volume 21, Serial No. 31, Pages 766, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.
