Summary:
Confederate Adjutant General Samuel Cooper orders General Samuel R. Anderson to follow his regiments to Staunton in July, 1861.

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Gen. S. R. ANDERSON, Bristol, Tenn.:

RICHMOND,

July 30, 1861.

The movement contemplated has been defeated by confusion of orders. You may follow the regiments with which you are intended to operate by way of Lynchburg and Staunton, and take your proper command.

S. COOPER,
Adjutant and Inspector 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 2, Serial No. 2, Pages 1008, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.