Summary:
Confederate Assistant Adjutant Charles Stringfellow writes Colonel John McCausland concerning the September, 1863, defense of western Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley. Stringfellow expresses fear for the security of the line to Staunton.

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Col. JOHN McCAUSLAND,
Cmdg. Fourth Brigade:

Dublin,

September 24, 1863.

COL.:

I telegraphed you last night that I have given Gen. Echols orders to garrison the Narrows in event of Scammon's advance, and that you could look mainly to the defense of the line west of that point.

I am trying to hurry up the cavalry regiments, but cannot hear from them yet. When the regiment ordered to you arrives, could you not hold the line you had previous to the withdrawal of the Sixtieth Virginia Infantry?

I am uneasy in regard to the very large force which Gen. Kelley has at Beverly; to weaken Gen. Echols, exposes not only Greenbrier and Monroe, but the line to Staunton also. Gen. Lee, in all probability, has his hands full to attend to the enemy in his front.

Very respectfully,

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