Summary:
Confederate Assistant Adjutant Charles Stringfellow orders Colonel George S. Patton to take measures to meet an expected August, 1863, attack on Staunton.

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Col. GEORGE S. PATTON,
Lewisburg, via Union:

Dublin,

August 10, 1863.

The enemy reported concentrating heavily at Moorefield to attack Staunton, via Franklin and McDowell. Send courier to Col. Jackson and put him on the lookout. Tell him to be ready to move at shortest notice to co-operate with general Imboden, or make a diversion in his favor.

By order:

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