Summary:
Confederate Assistant Adjutant Charles Stringfellow asks the commanding officer
at Staunton to forward a September, 1863, dispatch to Colonel Ferguson of
Jenkins' brigade.
Col. M. J. FERGUSON,
Cmdg. Jenkins' Brigade, via
Staunton
(Care of commanding officer at that point):
Dublin,
September 18, 1863.
Order one regiment of your brigade to Little Levels, in Pocahontas County, station one regiment near Lewisburg, and order one to report to Col. McCausland; send Witcher's battalion to Zollicoffer, East Tennessee, near Bristol:
Report execution of this order, the number of the regiment sent to each place, and use all possible dispatch. Notify Gen. Imboden and Col. W. L. Jackson of the move.
By order of Maj. Gen. Sam. Jones:
CHAS. S. STRINGFELLOW,
Assistant
Adjutant-Gen.
Officer Cmdg. at Staunton:
Please forward the accompanying dispatch to Col. Ferguson, commanding Gen. Jenkins' brigade, on Staunton and Parkersburg turnpike, near Monterey, with all possible haste, as also the one to Gen. Imboden. They are of greatest importance.
CHAS. S. STRINGFELLOW.
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 732, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.