Summary:
Robert E. Lee responds to General Samuel Jones' May, 1863, dispatch. Lee orders all available cavalry troops to Staunton.

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Maj. Gen. SAMUEL JONES:

RICHMOND, VA.,

May 16, 1863.

Dispatch received. I learn Gen. W. E. Jones will reach Lewisburg to-day. I have sent him instructions to Staunton. Thank you for offer of cavalry. Send all you can to Staunton. Let Imboden complete his business.

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