Summary:
Robert E. Lee writes General Samuel Jones regarding the movement of troops to Staunton to participate in General John Imboden's April, 1863, raid into West Virginia.

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Maj. Gen. SAMUEL JONES,
Cmdg. Southwestern Virginia:

April 16, 1863.

GEN.:

Your letter of the 13th has been just received. Upon the arrival of the Fiftieth Virginia, the Twenty-fifth and Thirty-first Virginia Regiments were immediately ordered to Staunton, to report to Gen. Imboden on Shenandoah Mountain. I hope they reached that point in time for the expedition.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

R. E. LEE,
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 728, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.