Summary:
Confederate General Samuel Jones forwards Assistant Adjutant Charles Stringfellow an August, 1863, telegram from Robert E. Lee expressing fear of an attack on Staunton.

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Maj. Gen. SAMUEL JONES,
Mouth of Indiana Creek, via Narrows:

Dublin,

August 10, 1863.

The following telegram just received:

ORANGE COURT-HOUSE,
August 10, 1863.
Maj. Gen. SAMUEL JONES:

Gen. Imboden reports Kelley concentrating his force at Moorefield: anticipated attack on Staunton by Franklin and McDowell. Have you any troops so disposed as to move by Huntersville, and aid or make diversion in his favor?
R. E. LEE,

CHAS. S. STRINGFELLOW,
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 29, Serial No. 49, Pages 633, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.