Summary:
Confederate Assistant Adjutant Giles Cooke orders Colonel Wharton to move through Staunton to Warm Springs to await orders.

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Col. G. C. WHARTON:

Dublin,

August 26, 1863.

Telegram received. Proceed to Warm Springs at once, via Staunton, and there await orders. Let me know when you reach Warm Springs. Enemy pressing Jackson near Warm Springs. Strength, between 5,000 and 6,000 mounted infantry.

By order, &c.:

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