Summary:
Union General Robert Schenck forwards to General in Chief Henry Halleck a January, 1863, telegram from Robert Milroy. It discusses a Confederate advance on Winchester from Staunton.

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

BALTIMORE, MD.

January 6, 1863

The following telegram from Milroy's division, Winchester, has just been received:

Information is received that Hill and Loring are approaching this place, by way of Staunton and New Market, in heavy force. I can hold this place, but need re-enforcements especially cavalry. Could not a force be sent from Washington, toward Luray and Port Republic, to cut them off?
MILROY.

Will any movement from the Army of the Potomac be made in the direction of the valley?

ROBT. C. SCHENCK
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 21, Serial No. 31, Pages 951-952, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.