Summary:
Confederate General Samuel Cooper writes Secretary of War James Seddon to inform
him that troops are being sent from Millborough to Staunton in July, 1863.
James A. Seddon,
Secretary of War:
Narrows,
July 9, 1863.
Your telegram of this date just received. Another, from Gen. Cooper, ordering me to Winchester instead of Charlottesville. I shall obey the last order with all practicable dispatch.
About two-thirds of the corps I design sending were in front of Lewisburg. Agreeably to orders I have given, they ought to march this evening from Millborough; thence by rail to Staunton.
A dispatch of yesterday's date, by special courier from the officer commanding near Raleigh Court-House, informs me on undoubted authority that the enemy at Fayetteville had been re-enforced the day before; that they were reconnoitering him in force, and he confidently expected to be attacked. He begs me to re-enforce him by about 1,000 of the troops now at Lewisburg. As you have ordered them east, of course I cannot send them to McCausland. I only repeat to you the substance of McCausland's dispatch, that you may have the information, as in the present rapidly changing current of events it may possibly modify your order to me.
SAM. JONES,
Maj.-Gen.
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.
