Summary:
Confederate General Samuel Jones writes Adjutant General Samuel Cooper in July, 1863, to inform him that troops are being sent from West Virginia to Staunton by rail.

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Gen. S. Cooper,
Adjutant and Inspector Gen.:

Narrows, New River,

July 9, 1863.

Your dispatch of this date just received. The movements of troops by the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad delayed by breaks in the road.

About 1,100 infantry, Col. G. C. Wharton commanding, will leave Dublin to-morrow evening, en route to Staunton and Winchester. The remainder of the number called for are in front of Lewisburg, and ought to leave this evening, according to orders, to march to Millborough, the present terminus of the Virginia Central Railroad; from thence to Staunton by rail.

I left Dublin this morning to go to Monroe, to hurry the movements of troops and to give necessary orders to the officers left in command in front.

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