Summary:
Robert E. Lee's aide-de-camp Charles Venable orders General Jubal Early to move to Staunton to take control of Confederate forces in the Shenandoah Valley.

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January 15, 1864.

Maj. Gen. J. A. Early, with his staff, will proceed to Staunton and resume his command of the Valley District. The post quartermaster will furnish transportation.

By order of Gen. Lee:

C. S. VENABLE,
Acting 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 33, Serial No. 60, Pages 1091, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.