Summary:
Robert E. Lee's Assistant Adjutant General Walter Taylor issues May, 1863, orders to General Isaac Trimble to proceed to Staunton to take control of all Confederate forces in the Valley.

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Maj. Gen. ISAAC R. TRIMBLE:

FREDERICKSBURG,

May 28, 1863.

You are hereby assigned to the command of the Shenandoah Valley, and will proceed to Staunton, and assume command of all the troops in the Valley. You will report your arrival there to these headquarters.

By order:

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