Summary:
In this May, 1863, letter, Union General Robert Milroy writes Robert Schenck to suggest a large attack on Staunton to relieve pressure on General Joseph Hooker's Army of the Potomac.

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Maj.-Gen. SCHENCK,
Baltimore, Md.:

WINCHESTER, VA.,

May 30, 1863

Every indication goes to show a tremendous concentration of the rebel forces on Gen. Hooker. Would it not be a splendid diversion in his favor for all our forces in Western Virginia to move at once on Staunton, and all my forces to move up the Valley upon the same point?

R. H. MILROY,
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 25, Serial No. 40, Pages 569-570, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.