Summary:
Union General Benjamin Franklin Kelley suggests plans for movements on Staunton in this November, 1862, letter to Adjutant General Bascom.

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Maj. BASCOM,
Assistant Adjutant-Gen., Charleston, W. Va.:

CUMBERLAND,

November 24, 1862.

Will the general pardon me for making a suggestion? It is this: If he intends Milroy to move from Beverly toward Staunton, and occupy the country in the head of this valley, at Monterey and other points, would it not be advisable for him to move with his command up the Potomac Valley, through Petersburg and Franklin, to Monterey? The road is good all the way, following up the bank of the South Branch. If Pendleton and Highland should be occupied by our forces, it will give peace and quietness to all the counties lying adjacent, west and north. His troops can be supplied from New Creek Station by a better road and less distance than from Webster or Clarksburg; and, moreover, if he should be assailed there by a superior force, he can fall back on me, or I can go to his support.

B. F. KELLEY,
Brig.-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 21, Serial No. 31, Pages 796, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.