Summary:
Confederate General Samuel Jones reports that infantry and artillery are on the road from Staunton to Winchester in this July, 1863, letter to Robert E. Lee.

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Gen. R. E. Lee,
Bunker Hill, via Winchester:

Dublin,

July 18, 1863.

I am detained here under orders from the Secretary of War. Col. Wharton, with about 1,100 infantry and a battery of artillery, on the way from Staunton to Winchester. Another battery will follow him on Wednesday from Staunton. The enemy is this instant so pressing me in front that I cannot, under present orders, leave here without orders from the War Department. Please do not incorporate Col. Wharton's command with any other brigade before I arrive. He is an admirable officer--has commanded a brigade for eighteen months. Let him command my troops until I come.

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 27, Serial No. 45, Pages 1021, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.