Summary:
In late April, 1863, Confederate forces moved to meet an advance by Union General Joseph Hooker's Army of the Potomac. In this letter, Confederate General Samuel Jones orders cavalry General Albert Jenkins to send all available men and horses through Staunton to join Jeb Stuart on the Rapidan River.

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Brig.-Gen. JENKINS, Cmdg., &c., Salem:

Dublin,

April 30, 1863.

Send forward soon as possible all the men you can mount, via Staunton and Gordonsville, to report to Gen. Stuart, now on the Rapidan river. Gather up your horses as rapidly as possible, mount the men, and send them forward without waiting to join regiments. The necessity is urgent. Put yourself in communication with Gen. Stuart. Lose no time. When can the first of them move?

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