Summary:
Confederate General Samuel Jones writes Commissary General Lucius B. Northrop to ask that rations be readied in Staunton should an emergency retreat be required by John Imboden's force engaged in an April, 1863, raid into western Virginia.

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Col. L. B. NORTHROP,
Commissary-Gen., C. S. Army, Richmond, Va.:

Dublin,

April 22, 1863.

COL.:

Will you please instruct your chief commissary at Staunton to hold in readiness 15,000 or 20,000 rations subject to my orders, to be sent to Millborough, or such other point as I may direct?

My object in asking this is to be able to ration Imboden's command in the event of its being obliged to fall back rapidly. Whilst I do not anticipate any such disaster, I desire to have rations at the most convenient point, to provide against unfortunate contingencies.

If you give the order I ask, please so inform me by telegraph.

Very respectfully, &c.,

SAM. JONES,
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 742-743, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.