Summary:
April, 1863, Confederate General Orders issued by Lee's Assistant Adjutant Walter Taylor. The orders direct two regiments to report to General John Imboden at Staunton for use in his raid into West Virginia.

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April 9, 1863.

XV. The Twenty-fifth Virginia Regiment, Jones' brigade, Trimble's division, and the Thirty-first Virginia Regiment, Early's old brigade, Early's division, will proceed to Shenandoah Mountain, by way of Stanton, and report for duty to Brig. Gen. J. D. Imboden, commanding, &c. They will take them their cooking utensils and baggage. The quartermaster's department will make arrangements for their transportation by rail to Staunton, and will designate the hour for starting.

XVIII. The commanding officer of the Fiftieth Virginia Regt. will report with his regiment to Lieut. Gen. T. J. Jackson, commanding, &c., for assignment to one of the Virginia brigades of the Second Army Corps.

By command of Gen. Lee:

W. H. TAYLOR,
Assistant Adjutant-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 714, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.