Summary:
Robert E. Lee asks Major Michael G. Harman, commanding at Staunton, to forward orders to General Henry R. Jackson. Jackson is instructed to take command of several regiments and move to aid Robert Garnett, pressed by George B. McClellan's Federals in West Virginia.

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Maj. M. G. HARMAN, Staunton, Va.:

Richmond, Va.,

July 14, 1861.

Send by express the following:

Gen. H. R. JACKSON:

Take command of Scott's, Johnson's, and Lee's regiments, and such other forces as may be at hand. Oppose the advance of the enemy, and move to the relief of Gen. Garnett. Four hundred rounds of ammunition, for the guns forwarded, has been sent.

R. E. LEE,
Gen., Commanding.

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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 245, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.