Summary:
Confederate Assistant Adjutant Giles Cooke writes to Colonel McCausland informing him of Lee's August, 1863, orders that Jenkins' and Wharton's brigades report to General Samuel Jones in Warm Springs via Staunton.

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Col. McCAUSLAND,
Cmdg., &c., Princeton:

Dublin,

August 24, 1863.

Telegrams, dated Union, August 23 and 24 inform me that the enemy, reported 3,000 strong, have pressed Col. Jackson back toward Warm Springs, and that a body of cavalry numbering 1,200 may make a raid on the railroad near New River Bridge; that another heavy column is moving on Lewisburg.

In view of the above, Gen. Lee has ordered Wharton's and Jenkins' brigades to report to Gen. Jones, via Staunton and Warm Springs.

GILES B. COOKE,
Assistant Adjutant and Inspector 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 667, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.