Records Related to Augusta County Regiments



From: B. F. KELLEY, Brig.-Gen.
December 9, 1862.

Summary:
Benjamin Franklin Kelley informs General in Chief Henry Halleck of December, 1862, cavalry operations in the Shenandoah Valley. Franklin plans to threaten and harass the enemy from Winchester to Staunton.


Maj.-Gen. HALLECK,
Gen.-in-Chief:

CUMBERLAND, MD.,

December 9, 1862.

Your telegram received. One of Gen. Thomas' (either Cox, Crook, or Scammon) brigades left New Creek for Petersburg, in Hardy County,on Saturday last, and he will follow in a day or two with the balance of his command, and occupy Moorefield, the county seat of Hardy, and Franklin, the county seat of Pendleton. This will give protection to the loyal citizens of the valley of the South Branch, and prevent the enemy from making raids into the adjoining counties lying west, as well as enable our troops to threaten and harass the enemy in the Shenandoah at all points from Winchester to Staunton. My cavalry are in Romney every day, but I will now, as you suggest, occupy it permanently. We have the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad repaired, and are now running construction trains as far east as North Mountain, within 8 miles of Martinsburg. I have parts of two regiments protecting the workmen. I write you fully by mail to-night.

B. F. KELLEY,
Brig.-Gen.


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 843-844, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.


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